{"id":2664,"date":"2012-10-12T15:18:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T13:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/?p=2664"},"modified":"2016-01-18T15:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T13:53:29","slug":"skype-users-targeted-by-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/2012\/10\/skype-users-targeted-by-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:en-->Skype users targeted by ransomware<!--:--><!--:af-->Skype-gebruikers geteiken deur &#8220;ransomware&#8221;<!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en--><\/p>\n<p>Skype users are being targeted by a round of ransomware that is being sent around as a message from contacts.<\/p>\n<p>The message reads\u00a0\u00a0\u201clol is this your new profile pic?\u201d, which is followed by a link. If the Skype users clicks on the link, a zip file containing an executable that infects the computer system.<\/p>\n<p>The system is the locked down and displays a message demanding money.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/microsoft\/2012\/10\/08\/warning-skype-users-attacked-by-lol-is-this-your-new-profile-pic-ransomware-and-click-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\">More about the Skype ransomware.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>SOURCE: www.mybroadband.co.za<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--:--><!--:af--><\/p>\n<p>Skype gebruikers is tans die teiken van <em>ransomware\u00a0<\/em>deur middel van `n boodskap wat voorkom asof dit vanaf iemand in \u00a0jou kontaklys kom.<\/p>\n<p>Die boodskap lui \u201clol is this your new profile pic?\u201d, gevolg deur `n skakel. As Skype-gebruikers op die skakel kliek, laai `n zip le\u00ear wat `n uitvoerbare program bevat, af en word die rekenaar se stelsel besmet.<\/p>\n<p>Die stelsel is gevolglik ontoeganklik en wys slegs `n boodskap wat geld vereis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/microsoft\/2012\/10\/08\/warning-skype-users-attacked-by-lol-is-this-your-new-profile-pic-ransomware-and-click-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meer oor die Skype <em>ransomware.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>BRON: www.mybroadband.co.za<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skype users are being targeted by a round of ransomware that is being sent around as a message from contacts. The message reads\u00a0\u00a0\u201clol is this your new profile pic?\u201d, which is followed by a link. If the Skype users clicks on the link, a zip file containing an executable that infects the computer system. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1103,29187],"tags":[29207,29208],"class_list":["post-2664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-security-2","tag-ransomware","tag-skype"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 09:22:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2664"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2664\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}