Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key (softpedia.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday November 8, 2015 @06:50AM from the better-luck-next-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A new ransomware family was not tested by its developer and is encrypting user files and then throwing away the encryption key because of an error in its programming. The ransomware author wanted to cut down costs by using a static encryption key for all users, but the ransomware kept generating random keys which it did not store anywhere. The only way to recover files is if users had a previous backup. You can detect it by the ransom message which has the same ID:qDgx5Bs8H

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Re:Just asking...... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-08 08:50 · Score: 5, Insightful

What the hell is wrong with people like you? It's not that the guy isn't a first class cunt, but what sort of poorly controlled emotion causes a person to warm to the idea of torture and death? I sometimes wonder whether some humans have a repressed bloodlust and they use righteous indignation as an excuse to bring it out.
Sure, lock the guy up, seize everything, whatever, following due process. Be more civilised than he is, not less.