Last week, security firm Bitdefender, the Romanian Police, and Europol allegedly gained access to the
GandCrab Ransomware's Command & Control servers, which allowed them to recover some of the victim's decryption keys. This allowed Bitdefender to release a tool that could
decrypt some victim's files.
After this breach, the GandCrab developers stated that they would release a second version of GandCrab that included a more secure command & control server in order to prevent a similar compromise in the future.
Yesterday, MalwareHunterTeam
discovered that GandCrab version 2 was released, which contains changes that supposedly make it more secure and allow us to differentiate it from the original version. In this article we will provide a quick overview as to what has changed and how you can identify that you are are infected with the GandCrab Ransomware.
Unfortunately, at this time, victims of GandCrab v2 cannot decrypt their files for free. As always if you wish to discuss this ransomware or receive help with it, you can use our
GandCrab Help & Support topic.
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