Reinvented ransomware shifts from pwning PC to wrecking websites

Found on The Register on Monday, 29 February 2016
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The website variant of CTB Locker is encrypting all files on WordPress-powered sites and replacing the index.php with a file that displays instructions for paying the ransom.

Victims can decrypt two separately-encrypted files for free in a bid by attackers to demonstrate the legitimacy of the ransom demand.

That is why you do backups. Restore, update and move on.