We know that through ransomware, cyber criminals get an excellent opportunity to make some easy money by encrypting data on the victim’s computer. Once the data is encrypted, the attacker uploads a ransom note explaining how much ransom is to be paid and how to make the payment. Victims are left with no other choice […]
Since its first appearances until today and surely in the near future, ransomware’s profitable business continues to grow rapidly, compromising the information of companies and users in order to request the payment of a ransom in exchange for the restoration of infected files. One of the threats that achieved great impact and infected a considerable […]
In a surprise move, the master decryption keys for the CrySiS Ransomware have been released early this morning in a post on the BleepingComputer.com forums. At approximately 1 AM EST, a member named crss7777 created a post in the CrySiS support topic at BleepingComputer with a Pastebin link to a C header file containing the actual master decryption keys and information […]
Misconfigured server led to Encryptor RaaS’ downfall. After law enforcement seized servers belonging to Encryptor RaaS, a Ransomware-as-a-Service cyber-crime portal, the site’s operators decided to close it down for good over the summer and deleted the master decryption key that would have allowed victims to recover their files. This action from the Encryptor RaaS owner […]
In surprising end to TeslaCrypt, the developers shut down their ransomware and released the master decryption key. Over the past few weeks, an analyst for ESET had noticed that the developers of TeslaCrypt have been slowly closing their doors, while their previous distributors have been switching over to distributing the CryptXXX ransomware. When the ESET researcher realized what was happening, he […]
Security researchers 2, Radamant coder 0.Researchers from InfoArmor, an Arizona-based cyber-security firm, have discovered an SQL injection flaw in the control panel of the Radamant ransomware that allows them to trick the C&C server into starting the decryption process without user interaction or without users paying the ransom. The Radamant ransomware family was first spotted […]
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a flaw in Linux Encryption Ransomware Linux.Encoder1 that exposes the decryption Key used to lock the files. Last week security experts at Russian antivirus firm Doctor Web reported the discovery of a new Linux ransomware dubbed Linux.Encoder1 that is targeting Linux systems. It has been estimated that tens of users have already […]