Biz tells ransomware victims it can decrypt their files... by secretly paying off the crooks and banking a fat margin

By Gareth Corfield

It's all in a lucrative day's work for Red Mosquito

A Scottish managed services provider is running a lucrative sideline in ransomware decryption – however, a sting operation by a security firm appears to show that “decryption” merely means paying off the malware's masterminds.

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