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Ransomware resisting crypto cracking efforts
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2008-06-13

Antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab called on Internet users last week to help crack the encryption used by the latest variant of a malicious program that scrambles victims' files and then demands payment for the decryption key.

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Ransomware resisting crypto cracking efforts 2008-06-16
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Its not only a question of time but money and profitability. If a lot of people knew they could get money by descrypting it I think there would be a lot them working on it.

For example if someone found a flaw he could easily sell it to an antivir company or even resell the original decryption services cheaper than the authors.

hint -> give kaspersky a quantum computer :)

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