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Steve McPolin

trojan horse 

In Ransomware Trojan code break 'impractical'

Stranger idea. Imagine you need to break a key. Create a virus which overwrites the victims data with your encrypted data and telling them about the extortion.

In sympathy, the really smart guys, provide a mechanism to break it.

You then use the broken key to decrypt all the other data you have....