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Ransomware is a type of malware that takes the personal data of a victim hostage until a ransom is paid. This does typically, but not necessarily, involve...

kleptography, which by definition makes the EC-DRBG a cryptotrojan. Like ransomware, the EC-DRBG cryptotrojan contains and uses the attacker's public key to...

expanded upon it) in a 1996 IEEE Security and Privacy paper. A cryptovirus, cryptotrojan, or cryptoworm hybrid encrypts the victim's files using the public key...

attacker who is caught with the virus or worm can claim to be a victim. The cryptotrojan asymmetrically encrypts the pilfered login/password pairs using the public...

attacker's private key. Kleptographic attacks can be constructed as a cryptotrojan that infects a cryptosystem and opens a backdoor for the attacker,[citation...