Emsisoft Releases Free Decryption Tool for Amnesia Ransomware

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A new decryption tool for ransomware victims has been released, this time for those affected by the Amnesia Ransomware.

Over the weekend, Emsisoft announced they had a new decryptor ready for Amnesia, a ransomware that was spotted just earlier this month. According to the company's CTO and malware researcher Fabian Wosar, the malware has had another variant released called CryptoBoss.

This new family of ransomware was named Amnesia based on the extension that gets added to encrypted files by the first variant (.amnesia).

The CryptoBoss variant has yet to get a decryptor, but researchers are working on it.

Amnesia victims, however, are lucky to get this tool to use. The ransom note can be found in each folder that holds an encrypted file. "HOW TO RECOVER ENCRYPTED FILES.TXT" is the name of the file which contains a personal ID, which should be included in an email sent to a certain address included in the file.

Read more: Emsisoft Releases Free Decryption Tool for Amnesia Ransomware
 

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