Give me your money, or your computer gets it

[tyler811]

Turning hijacked computers into cash is still hard work for most computer criminals. They've got to trick the infected PC into sending spam, then trick a recipient into buying a useless product -- or they have to steal online banking passwords, log onto a victim’s account, bypass the bank’s money transfer fraud controls, and so on.
It's much easier to just demand cash directly from infected users -- a crime that's the Internet's equivalent of kidnapping.
"Give me all your money or your computer gets it-" is the basic proposition.
The technique was dubbed "ransomware" many years ago by computer virus researchers, and is not new. What is new is the explosion of ransomware, thanks to the evolution of ever-more-believable tactics during recent months.

http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/01/tu...theyve-got-to-trick-the-infected-pc-into.html

 

[amdhunter]

Gimme some money or I will hijack your thread.

 

[Cattlegod]

Gimme some money or I will hijack your thread.

gimmie money or i'll hijack your hijack

 

[F1N3ST]

Thread is now about hijacking threads.

 

[Sea Moose]

gimmie money or i'll hijack your hijack

This thread is now about pie.

Spoiler

(see what i did there? I hijacked your hijacked hijack)

 

[F1N3ST]

I can't stop playing Bad Romance in my head by Gaga...

 

[tyler811]

This thread is now about pie.

Spoiler

(see what i did there? I hijacked your hijacked hijack)

I like pie

 

[Sea Moose]

I like pie

I also like pie.

What kind of pie do you like?

 

[IronWing]

I also like pie.

What kind of pie do you like?

I like Apple pie. Which reminds me of the iPad, the new wonder from Apple. Does anyone have any thoughts about the iPad?

 

[ahenkel]

Cake hijack. I like lemon cake.

 

[IronWing]

Cake hijack. I like lemon cake.

HOLY COINCIDENCE!!!! I had lemon cake for dinner tonight!

 

[Sea Moose]

I like Apple pie. Which reminds me of the iPad, the new wonder from Apple. Does anyone have any thoughts about the iPad?

You hijacked my hijack.

 

[IronWing]

You hijacked my hijack.

Imagine the jacking you could do if you had the iPad.

 

[Bill Brasky]

lol

 

[F1N3ST]

Imagine the jacking you could do if you had the iPad.

My screen! It's all gooey! D:

OMG. Play porn and position it like by your dick. Amazing!

 

[Andres3605]

Imagine the jacking you could do if you had the iPad.

No flash ftl

 

[KeypoX]

I can't stop playing Bad Romance in my head by Gaga...

me eitherrrr damn radio

 

[Ksyder]

HOLY COINCIDENCE!!!! I had lemon cake for dinner tonight!

holy crap I had lemon cake for breakfast. yum

walmart bakery is pretty good.

 

[tyler811]

This thread went to hell in a handbasket :\:\

 

[IronWing]

holy crap I had lemon cake for breakfast. yum

walmart bakery is pretty good.

My wife made the one I ate, lemons off the tree in the backyard.

 

[Sea Moose]

This thread is now about the color green



Grass is green
Green paint is green

 

[IronWing]

This thread is now about the color green



Grass is green
Green paint is green

Macintosh apples are green. Which reminds me...

 

[Ika]

yo dawg, I herd you like hijacks, so I put a hijack in your hijack so you can hijack while you hijack.

 

[Cuda1447]

Holy hijacked thread. Many times.

 

[Sea Moose]

This thread is now about pie


again



I have performed a reversal hijack.