{"id":3321,"date":"2016-04-30T19:16:11","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T11:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/30\/a-popular-toymakers-website-is-giving-visitors-ransomware\/"},"modified":"2016-04-30T19:16:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T11:16:11","slug":"a-popular-toymakers-website-is-giving-visitors-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/30\/a-popular-toymakers-website-is-giving-visitors-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"A popular toymaker's website is giving visitors ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ransomware, a type of malware that holds your computer hostage until you pay a certain amount of money, seems to be getting more popular since it sprouted up<\/a> in large-scale form in 2013.<\/p>\n

The website of Maisto International<\/a>, a toymaker that primarily sells model vehicles and remote control vehicles, is playing host to some ransomware,\u00a0Malwarebytes<\/a>\u00a0wrote Thursday. On the maisto.com homepage, malicious files can download themselves onto visitors’ computers via something called Angler.<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: Hackers demand $3.4 million in Hollywood hospital data attack<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Angler is a type of exploit toolkit that installs malicious files on your computer. In this case, the Angler kit is infecting computers with CryptXXX, a ransomware that encrypts users’ files, offering to unlock them for a fee. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ransomware, a type of malware that holds your computer hostage until you pay a certain amount of money, seems to be getting more popular since it sprouted up in large-scale form in 2013. The website of Maisto International, a toymaker … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2585,2584,2192,725],"class_list":["post-3321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-malwarebytes","tag-ransomware","tag-security","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}