How to Unlock WannaCry Ransomware Without Paying a Cent

In the past past weeks, we’ve seen a wild ransomware attack that affected industries all around the world. Dubbed WannaCry, it spread via an exploit through an outdated protocol in Windows. Affected systems spread the malware across networks without the other machines even having to click a link. Thankfully the spread is over, but companies hit by the attack still have a lot of mess to clean up. If you were infected, you know that you shouldn’t pay up. Ransomware authors obviously aren’t honest people, so there’s no guarantee that they’ll provide the decryption key even if you hand over...

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