The Trojan Petya encrypted foreign data. Victim can now hope: There is a solution to make it readable again.
jacket, computer, coffee – what is it at once a strange image on the monitor? A skull on a red background. you look closer, falls on: The skull consists of dollar signs – and so it goes. The computer was attacked by so-called ransomware, a malicious software that encrypts important files and only released again when the person concerned to pay ransom to the blackmailer.
Thus, it is no longer even worth, data hostage take, regular backups are the best remedy. But sometimes, even if you have sloppy with back-ups, it may also be worthwhile to wait a little and not have to pay the same. Just as in the case of ransomware Petya. A computer expert, who performs under the pseudonym “Leostone”, it is now able to encrypt the blackmail Trojan Petya crack. By programmed by him tool “Hack Petya” succeeds apparently in seconds to unlock the password from the encrypted files, such as the journal Heise Security reported on its website. The procedure is not necessarily something for ordinary computer users, but it turns out that it may often be better not to respond to the demands of the blackmailer.
The extortionists have in the past mainly the computers of individuals targeted. As the security vendor Bitdefender reported, but more and more companies are now affected. Also authorities, hospitals and other public institutions are under attack.
Sometimes it comes at blackmail not to encrypted data, but also to those that have been previously stolen. The extortionists threaten then, for example, in order to publish this data. An old knowledge of security experts is: Most data accidents could have been avoided if we had heeded a few basic rules. One of the most important is this advice to the companies: identify what the really important data and this foreclose particularly intense
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