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/> <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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