Security firms team to take down rudimentary ransomware

Stands to reason

Successful criminal activity will always spawn imitators, and it is the sincerest form of flattery.

I am happy to hear that AVG is helping to bring down some low-hanging fruit, but it doesn't make me relax.

After enough dumb script kiddies hook up with successful ransomware writers, there is no telling what might happen next. Beware

"The decryption is possible thanks to poor coding and implementation of encryption schemes"

Which means we have until the skiddies get a tool that implements encryption properly, then such workarounds will dry up and there will be no more easy way out.

The clock is ticking.

..resort to rm -rf??

Wait, what??? Does it run on Linux now as well?

Or is this comment just in respect of the upcoming Windows 10 upgrade with BASH? But that just gets rid of BASH. (Although it would not altogether be a bad thing to get rid of WX, as far as I am concerned).