Yep. foxgrrl has had some interesting posts on it recently, spoke at BruCon about it, and will probably speak at ToorCon about it.
There's an advantage to actually recovering the victim's files -- that way the victim can be hit by the virus again. The next step should really be protection-money-ware, where if you don't pay a fee every month, your files get encrypted all over again (and you have to pay more to get them unencrypted, naturally).
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Date: 2009-10-04 06:40 pm (UTC)There's an advantage to actually recovering the victim's files -- that way the victim can be hit by the virus again. The next step should really be protection-money-ware, where if you don't pay a fee every month, your files get encrypted all over again (and you have to pay more to get them unencrypted, naturally).