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Romanian police have seized servers associated with the Icepol ransomware scam, effectively taking down the pervasive threat for now. The Icepol Trojan extorted victims who downloaded it by sending prospective marks a fake message from local police accusing them of downloading copyrighted material or illegal pornography. The …

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  1. Elmer Phud

    Confused

    Does this mean we're allowed to like Romanians now?

    Will there be an announcement in the Commons?

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Be nice if you didn't have to allow javascript to access that site.

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  3. heyrick Silver badge

    There's a reason I have disabled Java.

    (see subject)

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    1. Boothy
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      Re: There's a reason I have disabled Java.

      I don't even install Java these days except in a VM for the rare, and getting rarer, occasions I might have something that needs to use it.

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  4. Merlin54

    Arrested for a harmless prank.

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