On June 3, Spain-based telecommunications conglomerate, Telefónica, released a free tool to recover data encrypted by the VCryptor ransomware. The tool, VCrypt Decryptor, was created as part of an ...

Good news for many victims of WannaCry: Free tools can be used to decrypt some PCs that were forcibly encrypted by the ransomware, providing the prime numbers used to build the crypto keys remain in ...

The National Police Agency has developed a tool that can decrypt files encrypted by 'Phobos' and '8Base,' two types of ransomware used in crimes that encrypt files on PCs and demand a ransom.

Victims of the CoinVault ransomware might be able to decrypt their files with a free tool released by Kaspersky Lab together with the Dutch police. The tool can be found at ...

Researchers have cobbled together a decryption tool for victims of the Petya ransomware, allowing most users to generate keys in less than 10 seconds. Researchers have been combing through code ...

First the good news: there are now free utilities for decrypting your data after a ransomware attack. Now the bad news: the tools only work for specific ransomware, not all variants. Cisco Systems' ...