The 2016 Pwnie Nominee For Epic 0wnage

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Credit: Eastern Europe and Russia Businesses. The cryptocoin community.

Nothing says “legitimate financial instrument” better than your cryptocoin being used primarally as a blackmail device. Nevertheless, we have to give kudos to whoever in the “online backup” community has been funding these innovative security businesses which are only slightly more fishy than traditional AV.

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There’s no CVE for this issue because CVE is dead.