Ransomware has been popping up everywhere recently, causing private citizens, hospitals, and even police stations to pay up in Bitcoins or lose their files for good.
But the "good guys" are fighting back. Two versions of ransomware, Jigsaw and Petya, have successfully been decrypted, and tools for decryption have been created. These successes give hope to people whose computers have been infected with ransomware.
For more information on how to get Jigsaw off of an infected PC, see this Threatpost article. For details on how to stop Petya, see the post here.
Showing posts with label ransomware. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
New type of Javascript-based ransomware reported
A new type of ransomware based on a Javascript framework has been reported. ComputerWorld.com describes Ransom32 as utilizing NW.js (fka node-webkit) to encrypt a computer's files and demand a BitCoin ransom in order to unencrypt those files.
Ransom32 would still need to be executed for it to take effect, and it's odd file size of 32 MB would hopefully deter otherwise-unaware potential victims. It has been seen so far packaged as a self-extracting RAR file. You can read more about this ransomware, as well as see screen shots of it, at ComputerWorld.com.
Ransom32 would still need to be executed for it to take effect, and it's odd file size of 32 MB would hopefully deter otherwise-unaware potential victims. It has been seen so far packaged as a self-extracting RAR file. You can read more about this ransomware, as well as see screen shots of it, at ComputerWorld.com.
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