iTWire Tuesday, 18 May 2021 12:21 Emsisoft CTO ridicules claims that Russian keyboard setting could stop ransomware Shares Image by Никита Сажин from Pixabay The chief technology officer of New Zealand-headquartered Emsisoft, a firm well known for its efforts in helping ransomware victims, has poked fun at the "new 'innovative' ways people will claim to be the next big fix for ransomware". "One of these eight-year-old running gags kinda turned into a real recommendation recently: Changing your keyboard layout to Russian," Fabian Wosar wrote in Washington Post employee Brian Krebs who posted an article on his blog titled "Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate" on 17 May US time.