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WannaCry decryption tools released

 
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PostPosted: Sat May 20, 2017 3:53 pm    Post subject: WannaCry decryption tools released Reply with quote
According to The Hacker News, Adrien Guinet, a security researcher for Quarkslab, has been able to make use of a flaw in the way WannaCry operates, thus allowing him to create a decryptor. In essence, the ransomware generates a pair of keys on the victim's computer - a public and private key for encryption / decryption - which ...read more
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