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Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files... by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin

Cynic_999

Re: Trust

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Surely a much more logical approach would be for the client to send over the files that need decrypting, and for RMDM to either use a re-imagable non networked computer or, more likely a VM to run the decryption process?

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Not necessarily. In general it is faster and more efficient to do any file data processing on the computer that contains the files rather than copying the files to a different medium and sending them off to be processed on a different computer. If, for example, you had many GB of database files that you needed converting to a different format, would you rather send those files to a company that could do the conversion and wait for the converted files to be returned, or have the files converted in-situ on your computer (after making backups of course)?

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