First Linux ransomware program cracked, for now

Posted by abennett on Nov 10, 2015 10:08 AM CST
ITworld; By Lucian Constantin 		Mail this story
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Administrators of Web servers that were infected with a recently released ransomware program for Linux are in luck: There's now a free tool that can decrypt their files. The tool was created by malware researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender, who found a major flaw in how the Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware uses encryption.

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