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Sure he must be skilled, but other than cryptolocker's novel approach which gave the victims no other possibility than to comply, on a purely technical level I

• PavleMiha 12y ago
  The sheer scope of it is impressive. To infect that many machines, have them network with each other, engineer massive wire transfers that are somehow silent and untraceable, not get caught to me is genius. Seems harder than finding a couple of 0-days (even though that's ridiculously hard as well), even on a technical level.
  • atmosx 12y ago
    That's true the numbers are impressive. He did get caught though, not him personally but his network was brought down by the FBI. The thing with the FBI is that of course, in the long you can't win, once you get in their radar it's time to abandon ship IMHO.