Just a heads up on an email that seems to doing the rounds. It pretends to be a speeding violation from the police and looks very official but if you open the attachment, it encrypts the majority of your data files.
They then demand about $600 for the decryption key.
I've seen three machines since Xmas that have been encrypted with a fourth showing up on Saturday. This 4th box is the only guy who has his machine doing backups, I had to reinstall all the others and didn't recover anything. I'm hoping it hasn't encrypted his backup files.
It seems to be a copycat of the cryptolocker virus that was around a year or so ago, but the encrypter they've written isn't the best so the decrypter don't work properly.
Please think before opening, how did they get my email address
