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Roger Blake[_2_] August 7th 20 02:21 PM

"Confirmed: Garmin received decryptor for WastedLockerransomware"
 
On 2020-08-04, Lynn McGuire wrote:
"After a four day outage, Garmin suddenly announced that they were
starting to restore services, and it made us suspect that they paid the
ransom to receive a decryptor."

"Garmin refused, though, to comment any further."


Perhaps they had good backups, kept offline. With that one can tell the
purveyors of ransomware to **** off.

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