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Hunting weak spots

So what is remote encryption?

Remote encryption is a major issue because traditional anti-ransomware protection methods dont work well, the researchers further explained.

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While remote encryption is gaining in popularity today, its hardly a new method.

In fact, it was a decade ago that CryptoLocker utilized this method with asymmetric encryption.

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