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djsumdog on May 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-...

What about really old ransomware where the payment release systems are no longer maintained? Are there some cases where old dead ransomware is still infecting people, but the scripts to unlock things on payment are no longer running?

jstanley on May 12, 2017 [–]

My understanding is that the decryption key release is performed manually.

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