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No More Ransom saves ransomware victims £6.5 million

  • July 26, 2017
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Adam Shepherd 26 July, 2017 http://cdn1.itpro.co.uk/sites/itpro/files/styles/article_main_wide_image/public/2017/02/ransomwarebigstock.jpg?itok=-DsvigaC

The scheme unlocks 28,000 devices in its first year

 
Ransomware victims have saved £6.5 million and decrypted more than 28,000 devices during the first year of the No More Ransom initiative, its creators have said.
 
The scheme, which was set up a year ago by Kaspersky Lab and McAfee in partnership with Europol and the Dutch National Police, offers users tools which allow them to unlock and decrypt computers that have been hit by ransomware. The tools are provided by nine partner organisations and protect against more than 100 different varieties of ransomware.
 
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Baldrick
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  • July 26, 2017
That is very good news and laudable but just think how much more could have been achieved if everyone in the security industry had pooled or were to pool all the resources...now that would make much more of a difference.