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THE FIRST WAVE of emotions, victims say, is a combination of panic and powerlessness. They click and reclick on files on their desktops—agendas for the Christian camp, payroll data for hundreds of teachers or medical information for veterans—to no avail. Someone, or something, has converted the files to foreign MP3 files or an encrypted RSA format. And next to these unopenable files the victims get a ransom note in a text file or HTML file: “Help_Decrypt_Your_Files.”
“All your files are protected by a strong encryption with RSA-4096 [military-grade encryption],” reads one note shared with Newsweek by a victim. “So, there are two ways you can choose: wait for a miracle and get your price doubled, or start obtaining BITCOIN NOW!, and restore your data the easy way. If you have really valuable data, you better not waste your time.”