Ransomware is an ingenious method used by criminals to extract money from their victims. The basic scenario is:

Adwind (also known as AlienSpy, Frutas, jFrutas, Unrecom, Sockrat, JSocket, and jRat) is a relatively new cross-platform RAT (remote access trojan), discovered in late 2015 in a targeted attack on a bank in Singapore.

The sudden demise of Norse Security has left many vendors and information security professionals in the industry wondering what happened. Brian Krebs wrote in detail about the activities that led up to Norse shuttering its operations over the weekend of January 30.