{"id":958,"date":"2017-01-06T19:15:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T00:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/?p=958"},"modified":"2017-01-06T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T00:18:06","slug":"ransomware-developers-look-to-educate-victims-and-help-decrypt-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/computer-news\/ransomware-developers-look-to-educate-victims-and-help-decrypt-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware developers look to educate victims and Help Decrypt files"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowledge is good, At least according to the cybercriminals who are developing ransomware that will give a free decryption key if the victim reads two articles about ransomware.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

A new variant of Koolova was discovered by security researcher Michael Gillespie, that demands the victim read two articles: a Google Security Blog, Stay safe while browsing,<\/a> and a Bleeping Computer article, Jigsaw Ransomware Decrypted: Will delete your files until you pay the Ransom.<\/blockquote>\n

Lawrence Abrams, said the ransomware itself behaves like Jigsaw in that once it encrypts the files it delivers a scrolling note telling the victim to read stories or else risk having their files deleted. In Jigsaw’s case the demand is for a ransom payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Knowledge is good, At least according to the cybercriminals who are developing ransomware that will give a free decryption key if the victim reads two articles about ransomware. A new variant of Koolova was discovered by security researcher Michael Gillespie, that demands the victim read two articles: a Google Security Blog, Stay safe while browsing, and a Bleeping Computer article, Jigsaw Ransomware Decrypted: Will delete your files until you pay the Ransom. Lawrence Abrams, said the ransomware itself behaves like Jigsaw in that once it encrypts the files it delivers a scrolling note telling the victim to read stories or else risk having their files deleted. In Jigsaw’s case the demand is for a ransom payment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,4],"tags":[1228,103,120,1518,1520,1519,1334,86,1307,1435,1008,7],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-news","category-computer-repair-bulletin","category-virus-and-malware-threats","tag-complete-computer-repair","tag-computer-news-2","tag-computer-virus","tag-decrypt","tag-decrypt-files","tag-decryption","tag-encrypted","tag-news","tag-ransome","tag-ransomeware","tag-security-news","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ccrepairservices.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}