Ahh, so it's a self-extracting sort of thing with said key.  I was expecting some kind of archive image of your data to be piped to them with unsaid consequences.

I feel like I'm missing out on the fun.  Maybe I should install an xp vm with sp2 and crawl the tubes with IE6 in a sandbox to get in on this.

-mb


On 08/07/2014 01:00 PM, sean wrote:

You only have to send one file. They are able to retrieve the decryption key from just that file.

On Aug 7, 2014 12:54 PM, "Michael Butash" <michael@butash.net> wrote:
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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