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Ransomware Operators Give Free Decryption to Taiwanese Man

posted by on Thursday May 25 2017, @08:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-PR dept.

butthurt writes:

[...] he wrote an email to the customer service with title "I only make US$400 a month, you really wanna do this to me?" saying that he could not afford the ransom to decrypt his computer.

ThunderCrypt responded to his message and told the netizen that they have switched it to decryption mode [...]

—Taiwan News

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @03:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 26 2017, @03:47PM (#516000)

    Shouldn't there be tools that can analyze read-write patterns of your HD in real time and go "OH SHIT OH SHIT OH SHIT" when they notice your files being rewritten with encrypted versions?