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Police shut down more Cryptolocker servers, new infections drop

article published on 5 June, 2014

Over the past couple of days, law enforcement has taken further action against the Cryptolocker ransomware. Europol's European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) has discovered and shutdown more command & control servers related to the Cryptolocker ransomware in the past couple of days. On Monday, it was announced that a U.S.-led international effort against Cryptolocker and the GOZeuS botnet had ... [ read the full article ]

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kutulu1
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_ 		6. June 2014 @ 11:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If anyone paid this ransom, they are stupid; easier and cheaper to swap out the HDD and reinstall the OS. Reinstalling the OS is also cleaner; don't have to worry about residual viral artifacts that might be lingering.
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gnovak1
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_ 		6. June 2014 @ 12:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's what I would have done. I guess people who aren't techies look at paying as the only way out.

I wouldn't give those crooks a dime !!!
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triggz88
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_ 		6. June 2014 @ 19:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeh why pay to get for example a novel you wrote or source code for software or anything else on your computer of any value, just delete all that shit and reinstall windows noobs! /sarcasm
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DOS_equis
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_ 		6. June 2014 @ 21:11 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
IS it really that easy to get rid of this infection? Do a simple file transfer to another drive and wipe the infected drive out? I would think that they would have it where you can't do a file dump to protect your files or they would already be encrypted so you can't move them.

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Dr_Shifty
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_ 		7. June 2014 @ 06:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by DOS_equis:
 IS it really that easy to get rid of this infection? Do a simple file transfer to another drive and wipe the infected drive out? I would think that they would have it where you can't do a file dump to protect your files or they would already be encrypted so you can't move them.
Cyptolocker encrypts every file on any drive that is visible to the computer - not only the main HDD but also any USB drives that have a drive letter. It can't encrypt drives that are on a network unless they are configured as a drive letter on the infected computer.

So even if you dump the whole system to another drive, it is already too late by the time you get the ransom demand.

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DOS_equis
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_ 		7. June 2014 @ 21:44 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Dr_Shifty:
Originally posted by DOS_equis:
 IS it really that easy to get rid of this infection? Do a simple file transfer to another drive and wipe the infected drive out? I would think that they would have it where you cant do a file dump to protect your files or they would already be encrypted so you cant move them.
Cyptolocker encrypts every file on any drive that is visible to the computer - not only the main HDD but also any USB drives that have a drive letter. It cant encrypt drives that are on a network unless they are configured as a drive letter on the infected computer.

So even if you dump the whole system to another drive, it is already too late by the time you get the ransom demand.
OK thanks for the info. Some of the other comments made it seem like you could copy the files over to save them.
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