They are called ransomware. These malware are very annoying computer viruses, they encrypt all the files on your computer and require that you pay a ransom to restore the situation. Recently, a US high school had to pay $ 28,000 to unlock its computers.
The problem in this case is that the attack on Los Angeles Valley College comes from Eastern Europe, a region of the world where the United States has difficulty in asserting its rights. Uncle Sam having no agreements with these countries. The LA Times reports the case:
Phil Liberman, a cybersecurity expert, says attacks like Los Angeles Valley College are common among companies and government agencies that use the Internet.
"Attacks usually come from Eastern Europe and can not be stopped because the United States does not have agreements with the countries from which the attacks are launched," he said.
Ransomware is most often propagated by email or an infected site and immediately locks the machine, Lierberman said. Once the payment is received, hackers provide an "unlock code".
Finding the hackers is not the most difficult.
The problem, according to Lieberman, is that "the government of the United States has no means of preventing them, since the governments of these countries do not cooperate and worse, take advantage of this criminal activity within their borders. "
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