Authorities in South Korea have filed charges against nine employees at a computer repair store. They are accused of creating and installing malware onto the computers of their customers. Police say they have netted more than 360 million won (approximately US $320,000) in the extortion scam. In some cases the ransoms are said to have been increased ten-fold, allowing corrupt technicians to make large profits when victims agreed that a ransom demand should be paid. In at least 17 incidents the employees modified ransom notes to inflate the original ransom demands in order to obtain larger funds from the victimized companies.”]