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Stung by file-encrypting malware, researchers fight back |
April 10, 2014
Jose Vildoza’s 62-year-old father was using his old Windows computer when a warning in broken English flashed on the screen: your files have been encrypted.Vildoza’s father, who speaks Spanish, didn’t understand the warning, which demanded payment in order to decrypt the files. When Vildoza looked at it, he knew it was bad. And he became angry.“I became upset with that,” said Vildoza, who lives in the small town of Bella Vista, Argentina, and works for Tucma Games, a video game developer. “I didn’t want to pay.”Vildoza’s machine had become just one of the latest victims of a long-running scam that has seen a surprising resurgence over the last year. For around a decade, cybercriminals have been hacking people’s computers and encrypting their files.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2142180/stung-by-fileencrypting-malware-researchers-fight-back.html#tk.rss_all
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