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Thanks for playing: New Linux ransomware decrypted, pwns itself

Wyrdness

"The secure random keys and initialisation vectors generate information from the libc rand() function, and are seeded with the current system timestamp at the point of encryption. This information can be easily retrieved by looking at the file’s timestamp"

I guess that these muppets failed Crypto-101.

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