{"id":4470,"date":"2012-06-03T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4470"},"modified":"2012-06-03T17:05:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T22:05:35","slug":"us-warns-users-of-new-citadel-ransomware-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4470","title":{"rendered":"US warns users of new Citadel ransomware hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This variation, called Reveton, lures the victim to a drive-by download website, at which time the ransomware is installed on the user&#8217;s computer, says the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Once installed, the computer freezes and a screen is displayed warning the user they have violated United States Federal Law. The crimeware declares the user&#8217;s IP address was identified by the Computer Crime &amp; Intellectual Property Section as visiting child pornography and other illegal content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2012\/053112-citadel-259739.html?hpg1=bn\">US warns users of new Citadel ransomware hit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This variation, called Reveton, lures the victim to a drive-by download website, at which time the ransomware is installed on the user&#8217;s computer, says the U.S. Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Once installed, the computer freezes and a screen is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4470\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-4470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4471,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4470\/revisions\/4471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}