How to unlock files encrypted by Petya ransomware for free Security researchers have released a new tool which can decrypt and salvage files locked by the malware.

Rich? This ransomware will charge you more to unlock your encrypted files The 'Fatboy' ransomware automatically alters its demand depending on the prosperity of the country of the victim.

Cisco released a decryption utility that unlocks files encrypted by all four versions of TeslaCrypt; Kaspersky Lab has also published a similar decryptor.

Check Point has discovered that a Russian IT consultancy claiming to unlock encrypted files has actually been paying ransoms and charging victims for its services.

A Massachusetts police department has fallen victim to a scam in which hackers encrypt the department's files and demand a ransom to unlock them.

Some courts have required suspected criminals to decode the encrypted files that investigators have seized from them, but others have not.

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