Tesla Crypt: The Battle is Over
Summary: Cisco Talos updated its TeslaCrypt decryptor so it now works with any version of the ransomware, which first appeared in April 2015 and went through versions 1.0 through 4.0. The authors of TeslaCrypt stopped their activities in May 2016 and released their master key, which ESET used to build a decryptor for versions 3 and 4.
What's compelling: TeslaCrypt ran from early 2015 through May 2016, and the defenders' ability to decrypt it depended on the attackers' own decision to release their master key - not on any control the defenders held.
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