Over the past time several online ransomware incidents has took the sleep away of many users and security researcher in many organisations and industries.
But finally we have some good amo against this kind of problem that is ransomware removal kit
Several Security firm and FBI itself has released some ransomware removal kit that are free to download from there respective website.
Just imagine a moment when all your important files are locked up by some strange program and asking you to pay to unlock the data that is already your.
"You should never pay to the Ransomware
because it make such attacks more
stronger for further attacks"
The Ransomware Removal Kit includes abilities of the following ransomware removal tools:
- CoinVault: CoinVault ransomware removal tools--link
- CryptoLocker: CryptoLocker removal tools and Threat Mitigation --link
- CryptoLockerDecrypt: FireEye Tool to decrypt files encrypted by the CryptoLocker ransomware
- FBIRansomWare: FBIRansomWare Removal ToolsTeslaCrypt: Tool for removing this variant of CryptoLocker ransomwareTrendMicro_Ransomware_RemovalTool: General ransomware removal tool from TrendMicro
Here what you need to do in case your system get infected with any kind of ransomware:-
The first response to a ransomware infection consists in the disconnection of the machine from the internal network to prevent the diffusion of the malicious agent. Be sure to create a copy of the disk that could be restored in case of problems with the ransomware removal kit.
The second step is the identification of the strain of malware that caused the infection( it can be any file/program/even a fake anti-virus program), then the user can try to decrypt files and remove the malicious agent.
How to prevent yourself from such attacks
>Do not download any file from untrusted source.
>Do not download email attachment from strangers.
>Do not download any file from untrusted source.
>Do not download email attachment from strangers.
>Do not use thumb drive without scanning from up to date virus definition anti-virus security product(my recommendation is Kashpersky)
this article is inspired from research of famous security researcher of UK Pierluigi Paganini
thank you for your contribution.
