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Topic: 2013-10-17 VentureBeat: Malware holds your encrypted data ransom for Bitcoins (Read 872 times)

legendary
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BTW , luckily this doesnt affect VSS ... so if you have any recent volume snapshots, which windows makes periodically, all ur files are safely in there, not encrypted =)
legendary
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The inventors of that malware are quite business savvy, in a thoroughly evil way.

$300 is a price that most people will pay to get their data back.

Well, you can trace a MoneyPak redemption, so they can't be that smart.
member
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Coffee makes it all better!
they should have shown the bitcoin address in the screen shot, then we could trace it, duh!
legendary
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The inventors of that malware are quite business savvy, in a thoroughly evil way.

$300 is a price that most people will pay to get their data back.
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