“If you don’t win an online auction, sometimes you receive a ‘second chance offer’ that costs whatever your highest bid was for an item. Extortion doesn’t work that way as seen by the newest second chance scheme launched by the cybercrooks behind CryptoLocker; the decryption service costs five-times as much as it would have to free your files from the ransomware in the first place.”
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