crypto lock

[Michael Butash]

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 at butash.net 
> <mailto:michael at 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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