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Deliberate Acto of Information (Extortion / Blackmail).

Definition: hacker or trusted insider steals information and demands compensation for its return.

Example: 

-Theft of data files containing customer.
-Credit card information.



Ransomware 

Is a type of malicious program that allows access to certain parts or files of the infected system, and asks for a ransom to remove this restriction.Some types of ransomware encrypt the operating system files that use the device and coerce the user to pay the rescue. Although the attacks became popular since the mid-2010s, the first attack was succeeded in the late 1980s by Dr. Joseph Popp. His company grew internationally in June 2013. The McAfee company noted that only in the first quarter of 2013 had detected more than 250 000 unique types of ransomware.



Examples

The Civil Guard of Castellón has arrested a computer hacker who used his knowledge to violate all security measures on his computer, obtaining photographs, emails and contacts. The responsible. A man of 31 years of age, as the author of crimes of threats, extortion, coercion, revelation of secrets and against privacy, committed all of them through the Internet.


The first case was in 2009 when a woman filed a complaint in which she claimed "to be blackmailed." she must have the sexual content extortionist, and if she is not, she will have the information on her computer published on the internet through the virus. The process of the delay originated in 2009 and was named by the Civil Guard as the "Duende" operation. He was subsequently brought before the courts.



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