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The FBI is seeking help from US firms as it investigates a nasty strain of ransomware, Reuters reports.

Ransomware encrypts data on infected machines and then asks for money before restoring access to information.

The FBI is analysing a strain of ransomware called MSIL/Samas that tries to encrypt data across entire networks rather than single computers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35916425

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Oh, the FBI needs help with encryption?

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And Petya as well, it reboots the PC, rewrites the MBR and performs what looks like a chkdsk run, but it is actually encrypting the whole disk. When it finishes, it displays a ransome message.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/29 ... ansomware/

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