No need to pay for ransomware For those who’ve found their computers infected by the WannaCry ransomware, there’s a solution at hand. Thanks to a new decryption tool released by a French security research, you don’t need to pay $300 in Bitcoins to cyber criminals if your system has also been affected by WannaCry ransomware. The cyberattack affected computer networks in over 150 countries including Britain, Spain, Japan, Indonesia, Taiwan to name a few. According to reports, it has infected over 300,000 computers in the world, and this is widely seen as the biggest cyberattack in the world. French security researcher Adrien Guinet, from Quarkslab has discovered a way to retrieve the secret encryption keys used by WannaCry ransomware. According to Guinet, WannaCry ransomware rely on prime numbers and generates a “public” key and a “private” key for encryption and decryption of the system files. He also found that it does not erase the prime numbers from memory before freein
W anaCrypt0r 2.0’ malicious software has hit the NHS some of Spain’s largest companies including Telefónica, as well as computers across Russia, the Ukraine and Taiwan, leading to PCs and data being locked up and held for ransom. The ransomware uses a vulnerability first revealed to the public as part of a leaked stash of NSA-related documents in order to infect Windows PCs and encrypt their contents, before demanding payments of hundreds of dollars for the key to decrypt files. The co-ordinated attack had managed to infect large numbers of computers across the health service less than six hours after it was first noticed by security researchers, in part due to its ability to spread within networks from PC to PC The ransomware has already caused across Britain to disturb hospital facilities – but what is it, how does it spread and why is this happening in the first place? What is ransomware? Ransomware is a particularly nasty type of malware that blocks access to a com