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Dumb Ransomware Developer leaves Decryption Keys on Infected Computers - RogueCoder - 04-02-2014
Dumb Ransomware Developer leaves Decryption Keys on Infected Computers
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So, How do Hackers compromise a Website? Simply by exploiting the flaws in it, that means they took advantage of the error in the developers’ code. Now, this time the hackers itself has left behind a crucial flaw in its malware code which can be exploited by us to help save our computer systems.
Believe me, it’s not an April Fools’ joke! A malicious software program that holds the victims’ computer files hostage by wrapping them with strong encryption until the victim pays a ransom fee to get them decrypted, has a critical flaw in its malware code itself that it leaves the decryption key on the victim’s computer.
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Source: thehackernews.com
RE: Dumb Ransomware Developer leaves Decryption Keys on Infected Computers - Snax - 04-06-2014
Actually it's probably not that devastating for the authors. I mean it's incompetent, yes, but most people wouldn't know that the key was stored there, or where to look for it, or even what to do if they found it. It's not gonna be a success like CryptoLocker, because in that case even experts had no choice but to pay if they wanted their files, but still they could do pretty well against ordinary users.