All 500,000 Cryptolocker victims can recover files for free

Sooraj Shah
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FireEye and Fox-IT team up to offer 'master decryption key' but not all files will be able to be decrypted

The 500,000 victims who had their files encrypted by malware can now unencrypt their files without having to pay cyber-extortionists behind the "ransomware" any money. Cryptolocker , which first...

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