Get Private Key?
Firstly published version of CryptoLocker virus was found on 5 September and has so far, according to BBC news, infected 250,000 PCs, approximately quarter of a million Windows computers across the world.
It is a ransomware that collects money through illegal way by encrypting victims’ files. The amount of money is at least 100 in all currency. According to CryptoLocker’s threatening message, the amount of money is in exchange for the private key copied once on its server, any delay in submission and removal of CryptoLocker will lead to the destruction of the key, which leads to impossibility to restore encrypted files forever.
As a matter of fact, the submission of money has not yet been known to lead to the acquirement of private keys claimed to be able to help retrieve encrypted data. Then how to get private keys?
