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Here just install this decryption software >

Haha it’s funny because I’m sure they hired some professional experts to advice on this and those guys conferred in a back room and were like umm ya I guess, give it a try? Nothing to lose really. >

almost verbatim. lucky it worked. :) >

TIL there are affiliate schemes in ransomware, so there are incentives for disgruntled employees anywhere to deliberately bring in the ransomware to let loose in their workplace. >

I worked for a public bus company that got hit with the CONTI ransom. They wanted 1.3mil for decryption, so the bus company opted to rebuild the servers rather than pay. It happened months before I got there but the backups did have small traces of the CONTI ransomware on network folders.
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