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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 2008-06-23
BlackHatOz
When are people going to become aware that the best defense against people such as our "friend" is to ensure that we invest more money into grey-hat activity. Research is the key to ensuring that we do not have to spend large sums of money trying to catch up with the malware writing community out th...

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