Malware Operator Barters With Security Researcher To Remove Open Source Ransomware Code (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: The author of the Magic ransomware strain has agreed to release all decryption keys for free if Utku Sen, a Turkish security researcher, takes down his Hidden Tear open-source ransomware project from GitHub. Sen has released multiple open source ransomware projects, which contained backdoors and encryption flaws. The flaws disrupted the plans of several ransomware operators. This particular ransomware author is Russian, while Sen is Turkish, so just like Putin and Erdogan, the two struggled to come to an agreement. Utku Sen finally agreed to take down the Hidden Tear repository in three days, while the author of the Magic ransomware will provide all the encryption keys for free for the next 15 days.

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Worse than spammers...

[moosehooey]

I've seen all the stuff people wish to happen to spammers. But I think ransomware operators are worse, and need to be strung up by the fucking balls.