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Security Researcher Tricks Tech Support Scammer Into Installing Locky Ransomware

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Ivan Kwiatkowski, a security researcher living in France, has turned the tables on a tech support scammer and fooled him into installing a copy of the Locky ransomware on his own PC.

Kwiatkowski's encounter with a tech support crew came after his parents had navigated to a dodgy website that tried to trick them into thinking they were infected with the Zeus banking trojan.

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Security Researcher Tricks Tech Support Scammer Into Installing Locky Ransomware

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