The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Tuesday confirmed that it obtained LockBit’s source code as well as a wealth of intelligence pertaining to its activities and their affiliates as part of a dedicated task force called Operation Cronos. “Some of the data on LockBit’s systems belonged to victims who had paid a ransom to […]
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) has officially announced the disruption of the BlackCat ransomware operation and released a decryption tool that more than 500 affected victims can use to regain access to files locked by the malware. Court documents show that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) enlisted the help of a confidential human […]
Avast researchers developed a decryption tool for the TaRRaK ransomware, a malware variant detected in mid-2021 and characterized by multiple errors in its coding and encryption process. Thanks to this tool, victims will be able to recover their encrypted files without negotiating with TaRRaK operators. Before learning about the decryption tool, let’s take a look […]
These are excellent news for ransomware victims. Specialists in ethical hacking of security firm Emsisoft have just announced the launch of a new tool to remove the encryption imposed by the ransomware variant known as Jigsaw. Like any other ransomware strains, Jigsaw encrypts the victims’ files, although it includes other features that make it unique. […]
A team of ethical hacking specialists has developed a free tool to remove the encryption implemented by the ransomware variant known as Paradise, which provides victims of this infection an option to regain access to their encrypted files without having to negotiate with threat actors. Paradise ransomware has been active at least since September 2017 […]
“Hey guys, I hacked back this criminal and got the whole database with (Mushtik ransomware) keys.” The last laugh – it’s something that everyone would like to have. Turns out, a German programmer by the name of Tobias Fromel had it in a very dramatic fashion. It all started when he was infected by the […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released master decryption keys for all the version ( 4, 5, 5.0.4, 5.1, and 5.2 ) of Notorious GandCrab ransomware which can be used for both organization or individual. Gandcrab ransomware initially spotted in January 2018, and it is one of the most sophisticated ransomware which causes billion’s dollar […]
Cybersecurity researchers have released an updated version of GandCrab ransomware decryption tool that could allow millions of affected users to unlock their encrypted files for free without paying a ransom to the cybercriminals. GandCrab is one of the most prolific families of ransomware to date that has infected over 1.5 million computers since it first […]
If your computer has been infected with PyLocky Ransomware and you are looking for a free tool to decrypt ransomware to unlock or decrypt your files, your search may end here. Security researcher Mike Bautista of Talos’ Cisco Cyber Intelligence unit has released a free decryption tool that allows victims infected with PyLocky Ransomware , […]
If your computer has been infected with PyLocky Ransomware and you are searching for a free ransomware decryption tool to unlock or decrypt your files—your search might end here. Security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco’s Talos cyber intelligence unit have released a free decryption tool that makes it possible for victims infected with the PyLocky ransomware […]
Ransomware has become a persistent threat to users globally but for cybercriminals, it is a lucrative business. Recently, IT security researchers at Check Point unearthed a sophisticated ransomware decryption scam in which a Russian IT consultant company has been caught scamming ransomware victims. The company according to Check Point researchers calls itself ‘Dr. Shifro’ and claims to provide […]
If your computer is infected with Thanatos Ransomware and you are looking for a free Thanatos ransomware decryption tool to unlock or decrypt your files, your search is complete. The Cisco Talos security researchers have discovered a weakness of the Thanatos ransomware code that allows victims to unlock their encrypted files free with Thanatos ransomware […]
Authors of the 3 critical Ransomware Family Polski, Vortex, and Flotera has been arrested in Poland and authorities Seized their computer equipment including the Laptop and servers as well as the Private keys. Tomasz T. – a Polish citizen who lives permanently in Belgium (known as Thomas or Armaged0n) responsible for conducting cybercrime such as […]
Short Bytes: The decryption key of an Apple security chip called Secure Enclave has been posted by a hacker called xerub. The chip handles all the security-related tasks on iDevices and prevents the CPU from accessing sensitive data. The decryption key gives access to the firmware image of the coprocessor on iPhone 5S. Secure Enclave Processor […]
Bank Trojan called “Ursnif” using clever Trick to Evade sandbox Detection from the Virtual Machine Environment by using mouse movements. New Futures has been embedded with it including anti-sandbox Technique to avoid Detection and its used combination of mouse position and file time stamps. Trojan This clever Technique helps to decode the internal data and steal Data […]
The master key of the original pocket version of ransomware has been unveiled by its creator, allowing infected Petya ransomware victims to recover their encrypted files without having to pay any ransom money. But wait, it’s not NotPetya it’s Petya. Do not confuse the Petya ransomware with the latest ransomware NotPetya destructive (also known as […]
The master key to the original version of the Petya ransomware – not to be confused with the latest and massive Petya/ExPetr outbreak that swept through the Ukraine and parts of Europe last month – has been released, allowing all the victims of previous Petya attacks to unscramble their encrypted files. According to researchers, the author of […]
Kaspersky Labs has released an updated version 1.21.2.1 of the free Jaff Ransomware decryption tool, Rakhnidecryptor, which can now also decrypt files locked by Ransomware sec. The researchers discovered the security in Kaspersky Lab’s weakness in the dry code Ransomware which allows victims to open their infected files by a dry at no cost. First, select […]
In what has become a welcome trend, today another ransomware master decryption key was released on BleepingComputer.com. This time the key that was released is for the XData Ransomware that was targeting the Ukraine around May 19th 2017. At 12:31PM EST, a new member named guest0987654321 posted a RSA private decryption key in our XData support topic and implied […]
On May 21st, a security researcher who goes by the name Thyrex, received a message on a Russian forum that contained a link to a ZIP file that supposedly contained a decryptor for the frogobig777@india.com variant of the AES-NI Ransomware. After examining the file, Thyrex posted a link to the file in our AES-NI Support Topic so that […]
In case your computer has been infected via WannaCry – the ransomware that wreaked havoc internationally last Friday – you might be fortunate to get your locked files returned without paying the ransom of $300 to the cyber criminals. Adrien Guinet, a French protection researcher from Quarkslab, has observed a manner to retrieve the secret […]