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Twice in the space of three months, researchers from BlackBerry have put out studies pushing claims about malware and ransomware that is alleged to attack Linux, giving the impression that this operating system is also under as much threat as Windows.

Security firm Emsisoft has released a free decryptor for reclaiming files which have been encrypted by an early version of the Windows Tycoon ransomware; this version used to encrypt files with a ".id-.[].redrum" extension.