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Comment Meta has no concern for Americans' rights (Score 1, Insightful) 72

Meta commissioned a study about its censorship Palestinians? Then I'm sure we'll be seeing the study about their censorship of Americans in a successful effort to limit the dissemination of truthful information at odds with the opinion-shaping narrative of the American state during the COVID pandemic.

Submission + - White-Hat Hacks Ransomware Gang and Releases Decryption Keys (zdnet.com)

ccnafr writes: A user got his revenge on the ransomware gang who encrypted his files by hacking their server and releasing the decryption keys for all victims. This happened earlier today and involved the Muhstik gang. Muhstik is a recent strain of ransomware that has been active since late September. It targets QNAP NAS devices. Hackers breach devices because of weak phpMyAdmin credentials, and then encrypt users data.

One victim, a German software developer, ended up paying the ransom, reverse engineering the malware, breaking into its C&C server, retrieving decryption keys, and then publishing the keys on Pastebin as revenge.

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