Romanian researchers lay waste to Linux badware, let users out of Cryptowall hell.
Darren Pauli
Ransomware targeting Linux servers has been thwarted by hard working security boffins, with help from the software itself, mere days after its existence was made public.
The Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware seeks Linux systems to encrypt and like others of its ilk demands owners pay BitCoins to have files decrypted.
But the first iteration of the malware has, like most betas, proven fallible.
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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/
