Maybe they'll only keep a copy of it as their price.

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.

Side note, their sister company is now huge in marketing data and porn, 
with some ties to wikileaks and nsa.  Joking, sorta...

-mb



On 08/07/2014 12:43 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 04:19:55AM +0000, Michael Havens wrote:
>> 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 <http://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/> for their individual content
> 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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