<p dir="ltr">You only have to send one file. They are able to retrieve the decryption key from just that file.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 7, 2014 12:54 PM, "Michael Butash" <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net">michael@butash.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Maybe they'll only keep a copy of it as
their price.<br>
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I would have figured someone would release an app to unlock it for
poor bastards, but you have to send them the data? Ugh, yeah no.<br>
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Side note, their sister company is now huge in marketing data and
porn, with some ties to wikileaks and nsa. Joking, sorta...<br>
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-mb<br>
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On 08/07/2014 12:43 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote:<br>
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<pre>Someone said a friend got ransomware on their computer?
Through a partnership that included researchers from FOX-IT and FireEye,
researchers managed to recover the private encryption keys that
CryptoLocker uses to lock victims' personal computer files until they pay a
$300 ransom. They also reverse engineered the binary code at the heart of
the malicious program. The result: a website that allows victims to recover
the key <a href="http://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/" target="_blank"><http://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/></a> for their individual content
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Why would they need email addresses? Also, businesses attacked by this
malware would probably be reluctant to send their encrypted files.
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