According to the theory of probability, strange things have to happen every now and then: There is a small chance that a particular strange thing might happen and an infinite number of things or events that we would probably call strange. Sometimes these strange things are rather good — like, for example, the news that the cyber-criminals behind the TeslaCrypt ransomware suddenly released the master key. Using that master key, anyone can decrypt the files that were encrypted by every version of TeslaCrypt. Just, wow.
It seems that for some reason the cyber-criminals have decided to stop distributing TeslaCrypt — ransomware that was considered one of the worst so far of its kind. The distribution campaigns that used to bring TeslaCrypt to the victims switched to carrying CryptXXX instead (for which Kaspersky Lab has developed a cure).
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