{"id":53831,"date":"2016-07-21T14:40:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=53831"},"modified":"2016-07-21T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T14:40:42","slug":"crypmic-unable-decrypt-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/crypmic-unable-decrypt-files\/","title":{"rendered":"CrypMIC Ransomware Unable to Decrypt Your Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CrypMIC, the ransomware that is rather comparable to CrytpoXXX, is experiencing a major technical difficulty&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We have always said never to pay the ransom demands from ransomware hackers.\u00a0 This post is nothing different; however I will give you another reason not to pay.\u00a0 According to <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.trendmicro.com\/trendlabs-security-intelligence\/crypmic-ransomware-wants-to-follow-cryptxxx\/\">Trend Micro<\/a>, the developers of the CrypMIC ransomware did not create their decryptor appropriately and 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