SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 18 submissions in the queue.
SoylentNews
posted by
cmn32480
on Wednesday November 11 2015, @06:19AM
from the good-news-for-the-afflicted dept.
from the good-news-for-the-afflicted dept.
Administrators of Web servers that were infected with a recently released ransomware program for Linux are in luck: There's now a free tool that can decrypt their files.
The tool was created by malware researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender, who found a major flaw in how the Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware uses encryption.
The [ransomware] program makes files unreadable by using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which uses the same key for both the encryption and decryption operations. The AES key is then encrypted too by using RSA, an asymmetric encryption algorithm.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
First Linux Ransomware Program Cracked, for Now
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 12 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 11 2015, @09:02AM
Classic Bitcoin scam.
The servers got "hacked" and now the users of the server are out Bitcoins.
Note the scare quotes imply the story is dubius, but hard to prove false (since you can't track the coins until they are spent again).