<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:20px">Please provide your email address [1] and an encrypted file [2] that has been encrypted by CryptoLocker.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:20px">This portal will then email you a master decryption key along with a download link to our </span><a href="https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/Decryptolocker.exe" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(15,117,188);text-decoration:none;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:20px">recovery program</a><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:20px"> that can be used together with the master decryption key to repair all encrypted files on your system. </span>"</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">explains why there. it might take some time to digest and break the file to return your key. so there is likely a queue.</div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Bob Holtzman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:holtzm@cox.net" target="_blank">holtzm@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 04:19:55AM +0000, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
> Someone said a friend got ransomware on their computer?<br>
><br>
> Through a partnership that included researchers from FOX-IT and FireEye,<br>
> researchers managed to recover the private encryption keys that<br>
> CryptoLocker uses to lock victims' personal computer files until they pay a<br>
> $300 ransom. They also reverse engineered the binary code at the heart of<br>
> the malicious program. The result: a website that allows victims to recover<br>
> the key <<a href="http://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/" target="_blank">http://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/</a>> for their individual content<br>
<br>
Why would they need email addresses? Also, businesses attacked by this<br>
malware would probably be reluctant to send their encrypted files.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--<br>
Bob Holtzman<br>
Giant intergalactic brain-sucking hyperbacteria<br>
came to Earth to rape our women and create a race<br>
of mindless zombies. Look! It's working!<br>
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