The operators of the Shade (Troldesh) ransomware have shut down over the weekend and, as a sign of goodwill, have released more than 750,000 decryption keys that past victims can now use to decrypt ...

Victims of the latest version of one of the most common forms of ransomware could now be able to get their files back without giving in to cybercriminals' demands -- thanks to the release of a new ...

Thousands of ransomware victims may finally get some long-awaited relief. New Zealand-based security company Emsisoft has built a set of decryption tools for Stop, a family of ransomware that includes ...

Romanian antivirus firm Bitdefender released yesterday a decryption tool that can recover files encrypted by an older version of the LockCrypt ransomware, the one that locks files with the .1btc ...

Belgian Federal Police together with Kaspersky Lab have released a free decryption tool for some versions of the Cryakl ransomware. In a joint statement released through Europol, Belgian police said ...

One of the worst types of malicious software that computer users worldwide are plagued with is ransomware. This type of malware encrypts the contents of the user's computer in an attempt to force the ...

Security firm AVG has fired back in the long-running tit-for-tat battle with the ransomware black hats by releasing a new tool to decrypt files locked with the Bart variant. Malware analyst Jakub ...

Security experts are warning that a newly revealed hack designed to let victims of the Petya ransomware decrypt their files again, might not be useful for too much longer. An unnamed researcher posted ...

Users who have had their files encrypted by any version of the Bart ransomware program are in luck: Antivirus vendor Bitdefender has just released a free decryption tool. The Bart ransomware appeared ...

Computer users who have been affected by the Dharma ransomware and have held onto their encrypted files can now restore them for free. Researchers have created decryption tools for this ransomware ...