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Security Researchers Puzzled by Demise of TeslaCrypt Ransomware - eWeek

June 22, 2016

Security Researchers Puzzled by Demise of TeslaCrypt Ransomware - eWeek

eWeek, June 22, 2016
Cyber-criminals have already shifted to another ransomware program, CryptXXX, but researchers continue to puzzle over why TeslaCrypt's operators gave up their encryption keys. It's unlikely that an insider or rival leaked the key, according to Jornt van der Wiel, a security researcher with Kaspersky Lab "If that would have been the case, they could have changed the key and continued the operation."

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Security Researchers Puzzled by Demise of TeslaCrypt Ransomware - eWeek

Security Researchers Puzzled by Demise of TeslaCrypt Ransomware - eWeek
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