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Re:Ransomware maker TeslaCrypt shuts down after releasing ma... by fencepost on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:35PM (#11733582)
I didn't get that the developers were switching to something new, but that the developers were shutting down and the distributors (people actually working to get TeslaCrypt onto PCs) were switching to something new - presumably because the TeslaCrypt folks were going away.

The Bleeping Computer article has much better information (and comments) than the TechCrunch reporting of it.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teslacrypt-shu...

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Re:Ransomware maker TeslaCrypt shuts down after releasing ma... by Nadya on Thursday May 19, 2016 @04:53PM (#11733743)
>I didn't get that the developers were switching to something new, but that the developers were shutting down and the distributors (people actually working to get TeslaCrypt onto PCs) were switching to something new - presumably because the TeslaCrypt folks were going away.

Aw, that makes more sense. I thought the devs and distributors were one and the same.

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