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Title: 2013-10-17 VentureBeat: Malware holds your encrypted data ransom for Bitcoins Post by: Arvicco on October 17, 2013, 10:03:12 PM http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/17/cryptolocker-bitcoin/
Title: Re: 2013-10-17 VentureBeat: Malware holds your encrypted data ransom for Bitcoins Post by: justusranvier on October 17, 2013, 10:05:38 PM 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. Title: Re: 2013-10-17 VentureBeat: Malware holds your encrypted data ransom for Bitcoins Post by: SPC_Bitcoin on October 19, 2013, 09:05:10 AM they should have shown the bitcoin address in the screen shot, then we could trace it, duh!
Title: Re: 2013-10-17 VentureBeat: Malware holds your encrypted data ransom for Bitcoins Post by: odolvlobo on October 19, 2013, 07:01:06 PM 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. Title: Re: 2013-10-17 VentureBeat: Malware holds your encrypted data ransom for Bitcoins Post by: GenTarkin on October 19, 2013, 07:19:26 PM 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 =)
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