On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:49 AM, John Quigley <quigs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> In talking with someone at a local cloud company yesterday, I learned that
> a number of large organizations in our town, including banks, have been hit
> with Cryptowall in the past few weeks. On the news this morning was a
> report of a sheriff's office in TN paying the $500 ransom after working
> with FBI.
>

Various security related blogs I follow have noted that Cryptowall attacks
are way up; it's apparently commoditized now to the point that just about
anyone can easily buy the framework and attack anyone with it.

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