Malwares that are being released these days are in various flavours like trojan, virus, worms, spyware, adware and now it is ransomware. Recently a free ransomware decrypter has been developed and released.
Ransomware is a type of malware that will encrypt all the data that resides on the disk and will ask the victim to pay a ransom of some amount for providing the decryption keys. This is a sophisticated attack.
Without the decryption key it is nearly impossible to retrieve the data that has been encrypted and even some city police also fall as a victim to this attack. Ransomware that is very popular is #Coinvault and the next version is #Bitcryptor.
After the initiative taken against the ransomware and the command and control centre has bene raided and the keys has been seized and then the antivirus vendor #Kaspersky join hands with Dutch police and developed a decrypter tool.
They have arrested a person related to this ransomware and with his information the keys has been updated in the tool. Now if you are affected with this ransomware do the following
Get the list of encrypted files from the ransomware interface
Install some good antivirus and remove the malicious ransomware
Then navigate to noransom.kaspersky.com and download the tool
Install the additional libraries and decrypt the files.
This tool will not help you if you are affected again in near future. As stated earlier Prevention is always better than cure. The steps that can be taken to get rid of this ransomware are
Install a good Antivirus and update regularly
Don't open any suspicious download from unknown sources
Don't click on any pop up from any unknown sources.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to be misused.
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