Ransomware

["sjl" <sjl_abc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scary stuff...

<It's 6 p.m. on a Friday, and you're getting ready to pack up for the 
weekend when your telephone rings. It's the CEO of your company; he's 
returning from a business trip, and he's unable to access his notes from the 
board meeting he just attended.

He reports a strange message on his computer screen and would like you to 
come take a look. You hope there's a simple fix, and haven't quite abandoned 
hopes of dinner and a movie, but those hopeful thoughts are replaced with a 
sickening feeling in the pit of your stomach when you read the words on his 
laptop screen:

"Your files are encrypted with RSA-1024 algorithm. [sic] To recovery your 
files you need to buy our decryptor. To buy decrypting tool contact us 
at..."

It looks like your company is the victim of ransomware -- the malware threat 
du jour...>


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