CryptoLocker Is Dead: Here’s How You Can Get Your Files Back!

Good news for anyone affected by Cryptolocker. IT security firms FireEye and Fox-IT have launched a long-awaited service to decrypt files held hostage by the notorious ransomware. This comes shortly after researchers working for Kyrus Technology released a blog post detailing how CryptoLocker works, as well as how they reverse engineered it to acquire the private key used to encrypt hundreds of thousands of files. The CryptoLocker trojan was first discovered by Dell SecureWorks last September. It works by encrypting files that have specific file extensions, and only decrypting them once a ransom of $300 had been paid. Although the...

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