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So we’ve all heard the stories about Crypto-whatevers and said, “It’ll never happen to me.” Right? Right! I’ve been there, but then… it happened to me.
Roll in CryptoWall! This seemed to me to be the latest and greatest version of them all, which can be contracted by web or e-mail, and I got it. This is the story of how we found out about it and what happened next.
It was 12:30 p.m. on a Wednesday. I was just about to go to lunch when a gent from Accounts came down and told me he couldn’t open some files from our file server. At first it didn’t sound too bad. He was reciting the usual “...