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Hacking victim who paid Bitcoin ransom goes on to hack the hackers

thenextweb.com

A ransomware victim that paid Bitcoin BTC to unlock his files has enacted sweet vengeance on his attackers, by hacking them right back. As part of his retaliation, German programmer Tobias Frömel (aka “battleck”) released almost 3,000 decryption keys to assist others hit by the Muhstik ransomware, alongside free decryption software, BleepingComputer reports.

The Muhstik ransomware hackers have plagued QNAP’s Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices since the end of September. They’ve found success by brute-forcing their way into devices with weak passwords, encrypting files and demanding 0.09 BTC ($700) of their victims to unlock them.

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