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Re: [Cryptography] Cryptolocker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Thu Nov 21 21:58:08 2013
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From: dan@geer.org
To: Glenn Willen <gwillen@nerdnet.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:21:27 PST."
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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 21:51:26 -0500
Cc: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@gmail.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com
I can say that this did hit an accounting firm that I know well.
The encryption of all of their files ten days before the 10/15
tax deadline was nearly fatal and, yes, it nailed the backups.
I believe the toehold was a poisoned PDF from a client.
--dan
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