Petya victims given hope by researchers
Now before I go on I dont understand why did he asked of 388 dollars worth of bitcoins only.I mean dude just hacked and made some files dissapear,could've asjed atleast one bitcoin lol.
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A security firm says it has managed to decrypt files damaged by the recent Petya ransomware attack, on one infected computer.
The cyber-attack caused havoc for businesses around the globe, but mainly in Ukraine.
The potential solution only works if the ransomware secured administration privileges to the machine.
However Positive Technologies said the concept is currently too technical for most average computer users to run.
The completeness of data recovery depends on many factors (disk size, free space, and fragmentation) and may be able to reach 100% for large disks that contain many standard files, such as OS [Operating Systems] and application components that are identical on many machines and have known values
Any hope?
The research team's finding only works on the recent Petya ransomware and its variants.
It doesn't look like a working solution yet but it gives cause for hope.
What they seem to have discovered is that there's a portion of the MFT that isn't corrupted and they are suggesting they may have found a way of recovering that.
"I dont understand why did he asked of 388 dollars worth of bitcoins only"
This attack followed shortly after the WannaCry outbreak. It seemed that most people were of the mindset that the WannaCry authors would have received more money had they charged less per ransom. I was honestly surprised to see them charging that high.
oh i see
Hope they crack this thing.
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