On Valentines day a new malware launches.
Coincidence that it targets those looking for love with a fairly simple phishing email.
Read the msg & follow the links, and computer is locked and held for BTC or Dash ransom.
One question is the choice of cryptos for the randsom, they are not exactly private especially for a scam that will probably take a while to spread.
Since it is being sent to potentially non-crypto users they even include a live chat window for those that need help paying, rather strange.
Per the article this GandCrab (meaning??) is the first of many doing this and demanding Dash. Yet it only was reported a few days ago, strange, unless some more are planned?
How better to discredit crypto than make it 'bad' in the public eye, hackers, randoms, media.
If this ends up on the front of MSM then the plot becomes transparent.
Time will tell