Original Author of Petya Ransomware is Back & He Wants to Help NotPetya Victims

NotPetya is malware and canceled surgeries at two Pittsburgh-area hospitals, hit computers at the pharmaceutical company Merck and the law firm DLA Piper, as well as infected computers at the Dutch shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk, forcing them to shut down some container terminals in seaports from Los Angeles to Mumbai:

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Now the original author wants to help you by offering a privkey (a variable that is used with an algorithm to encrypt and decrypt code) which may or may not work. Yeah, right.