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Don't pay the ransom, mate. Don't even fix a price, say Australia's cyber security bods

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Yes and so are the anti virus companies who make enhanced decryption tools you can buy using the keys the criminals provide. Both sides of that battle WANT criminals to honour decryption so that everybody wins. What is even funnier is that infosec professionals get easy low-hanging fruit knocking on their doors wanting to be certified as being less likely to get owned as a result. Outsourced IT tech support even loves it because “user induced damage” is routinely excluded from contracts and that includes users running malware.

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