​How to easily defeat Linux Encoder ransomware

[CrankyBear]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-fix-linux-encoder-ransomware/

[Hello71]

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10524791

tl;dr: if you run nearly-a-year-unpatched software (Magento) you will be hacked by script kiddies.

This is a fairly competent article, other than the obviously click-bait title. Although the Bitdefender post linked as a source contains much more technical detail and less copy-paste tutorial: http://labs.bitdefender.com/2015/11/linux-ransomware-debut-f...

[eugenekolo]

I cleaned up the README and hosted the decrypter on Github: https://github.com/eugenekolo/linux-ransomware-decrypter