Ransomware
keep on rising to an extreme dangerous level and unfortunately a new ransomware
bug known as Petya Ransomware is welcomed in dark cyberworld. Ransomware Virus
is so dangerous that usually user ends up paying ransom money to get access to
their own encrypted data.
We
generally don’t cheer bugs, but this time we are……
If
your system is infected with Petya Ransomware then don’t panic you have a good news.
Now you can unlock your computer without paying a
ransom to the hackers. Don’t thanks me for this thanks to the Petya author who left a bug in Ransomware code.
Wha
tis Petya Ransomware??
Just
like other ransomware virus Petya is also the malicious ransomware program but
it works quite differently from other ransomware.
This
new malware target user by rebooting their Windows computers and encrypt their hard
drive's master boot file, and render the master boot record inoperable.
MBR or
master boot record is actually the information in first sector of any hard disk,
that recognize how and where the OS is located while master boot file is the
file on NTFS volumes that have name, size, and location of other files.
Once
it enters into the system, it makes the system restarts and Petya ransomware
code is booted or operating system, shows a ransom note which demands 0.9
Bitcoin to unlock your encrypted
files.
Without the decryption
key user won’t be able to boot their infected system as well as all the files
on startup disk will remain inaccessible.
Researcher
named as @leostone on the Twitter has developed a tool which
can generate the key Petya requires to decrypt your system.
This
researcher have discovered the weakness found in this malware infection.
As
per, Lawrence Abrams the key generator tool developed by Leostone can easily unlock
the locked PC in just 7 seconds.
The
decryptor tool developed by Leostone's decryptor tool doesn’t provide the straight-forward
way to extract encrypted data. For non-technical guy it can be a very tiresome
and lengthy process.
You
still need not to worry another researcher named Fabian Wosar,
created a free tool called Petya Sector Extractor that can extract
the data in just one seconds.
This
will provide you the perfect solution to decrypt your encrypted file.
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