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June 5, 2015 06:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/W-yz4gy9FjU/intel-security-scares-ransomware-script-kiddie-out-of-business
Intel Security Scares Ransomware Script Kiddie Out of Business
tdog17 writes: A criminal coder wrote a kit for ransomware that made it easy for others to encrypt victims' hard drives and then extort money from them in order to get the decryption keys. But when Intel Security wrote about the kit — called Tox — the author got cold feet. Now he or she is trying to sell the whole business. “Plan A was to stay quiet and hidden. It's been funny, I felt alive, more than ever, but I don't want to be a criminal. The situation is also getting too hot for me to handle, and (sorry to ruin your expectations) I'm not a team of hard core hackers. I’m just a teenager student,” the coder wrote on the Tox malware site.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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