{"id":539,"date":"2017-05-19T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=539"},"modified":"2017-05-19T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T17:08:43","slug":"wannacry-ransomware-decryption-tool-released-unlock-files-without-paying-ransom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wannacry-ransomware-decryption-tool-released-unlock-files-without-paying-ransom\/","title":{"rendered":"WannaCry Ransomware Decryption Tool Released; Unlock Files Without Paying Ransom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you were infected by WannaCry, they have released a decryption tool to unlock your files without paying the ransom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If your PC has been infected by <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/05\/how-to-wannacry-ransomware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WannaCry<\/a> \u2013 the ransomware that wreaked havoc across the world last Friday \u2013 you might be lucky to get your locked files back without paying the ransom of $300 to the cyber criminals.<\/p>\n<p>Adrien Guinet, a French security researcher from Quarkslab, has discovered a way to retrieve the secret encryption keys used by the <a href=\"http:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/05\/how-to-wannacry-ransomware.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WannaCry ransomware<\/a> for free, which works on Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 operating systems.<\/p>\n<h3>WannaCry Ransomware Decryption Keys<\/h3>\n<p>The WannaCry&#8217;s encryption scheme works by generating a pair of keys on the victim&#8217;s computer that rely on prime numbers, a &#8220;public&#8221; key and a &#8220;private&#8221; key for encrypting and decrypting the system\u2019s files respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/05\/wannacry-ransomware-decryption-tool.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&amp;_m=3n.009a.1497.qm0ao08yu9.w5v\">Read the entire article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2017\/05\/wannacry-ransomware-decryption-tool.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29&amp;_m=3n.009a.1497.qm0ao08yu9.w5v\">WannaCry Ransomware Decryption Tool Released; Unlock Files Without Paying Ransom<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were infected by WannaCry, they have released a decryption tool to unlock your files without paying the ransom. If your PC has been infected by WannaCry \u2013 the ransomware that wreaked havoc across the world last Friday \u2013 you might be lucky to get your locked files back without paying the ransom of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office-windows-powerpoint","category-privacy","category-security-2","category-all-things-geeky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}