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Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released (csoonline.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the protect-ya-neck dept.

itwbennett writes: Last week a new piece of ransomware was discovered that targets Linux servers. Yesterday, researchers at Bitdefender discovered a critical flaw in how the ransomware (dubbed Linux.Encoder.1) operates while testing a sample in their lab and released a free tool that will automatically decrypt any files on a victim's system that were targeted.

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  1. So let's get this straight by iggymanz · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is a C program that when run as root does bad things. Which is totally unexpected result compared to what any other C (or python or perl or bash or lisp) program that does bad things can do when run as root (or just having bad person logged in as root could do)

    Yeah.

    I swear "security experts" and "antivirus companies" are pandering to morons to justify their existence.