The developer behind the original Petya ransomware has provided a tool to help minimize the damage inflicted on infected PCs. It is in the form of a master decryption key to release the files held ...

Victims of several strains of the Petya ransomware may now be able unlock their files for free, thanks to the release of a new decryption tool for the malware family. While the tool is capable of ...

Here's something you don't see too often: a ransomware creator unearthing the master decryption key for public consumption. That's exactly what we're seeing from Petya's original developer, allowing ...

The original developer of the Petya ransomware has released a master decryption key that works for all prevision versions of its enciphering creation. On 5 July, a person or group by the name “Janus ...

The Petya ransomware lock screen warned that your hard drive was encrypted with military grade encryption and the only way to unlock it was to cough up the bitcoins to purchase a password decryption ...

A new decryption tool is now freely available to help people impacted by some strains of the Petya ransomware recover their files. Recently released by Malwarebytes (via ZDNet), the tool unfortunately ...

Researchers have cobbled together a decryption tool for victims of the Petya ransomware, allowing most users to generate keys in less than 10 seconds. Researchers have been combing through code ...

Anonymous hackers have put out an announcement that they have a decryption key that can save any computer hit by Petya or NotPetya, and they want 100 bitcoin for it, or approximately $250,000.

Security experts are warning that a newly revealed hack designed to let victims of the Petya ransomware decrypt their files again, might not be useful for too much longer. An unnamed researcher posted ...

Security experts have devised a method that allows users to recover data from computers infected with the Petya ransomware program without paying money to cybercriminals. Petya appeared on researchers ...

The developer behind the original Petya ransomware has provided a tool to help minimize the damage inflicted on infected PCs. It is in the form of a master decryption key to release the files held ...