The key to decrypt the original Petya ransomware has been reportedly released by the ransomware’s author. The master key to the original version of the Petya ransomware – not to be confused with the ...

The developer behind the original Petya ransomware has provided a tool to help minimize the damage inflicted on infected PCs. It is in the form of a master decryption key to release the files held ...

American software firm Kaseya has access to the universal decryption key for the REvil ransomware that targeted its managed service provider customers. The company announced its access to the ...

Some users whose computers have been infected with a ransomware program called TeslaCrypt might be in luck: security researchers from Cisco Systems have developed a tool to recover their encrypted ...

The Kaseya ransomware attack, which occurred in July and affected as many as 1,500 companies worldwide, was a big, destructive mess—one of the largest and most unwieldy of its kind in recent memory.

The cybercrime group behind the FonixCrypter ransomware has announced today on Twitter that they've deleted the ransomware's source code and plan to shut down their operation. As a gesture of goodwill ...

Last week, researchers from Russian antivirus vendor Doctor Web discovered a new Ransomware family targeting Linux systems. They called the malware Linux.Encoder.1, and warned administrators with ...

Last month the notorious REvil ransomware gang pulled an abrupt disappearing act that could have left its victims with no way to recover their data. As it turns out, many of those victims can now get ...

A malicious software program that encrypts a person’s files until a ransom is paid has a crucial error: it leaves the decryption key on the victim’s computer. Symantec analyzed a program called ...