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
> <mailto: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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