nir Posted October 18, 2018 Share Posted October 18, 2018 In a post to an underground hacking and cybercrime forum, the GandCrab developers have released the decryption keys for Syrian victims. The release of these decryption keys was in response to a Tweet where a Syrian victim asked for help after photos of his deceased children were encrypted. "@coveware Hello, my name is Jameel, I am a Syrian father who lost both his sons to the cruel war the country is going through All I have left of my children is the photos and videos I took of them before they were mercilessly killed. And now GandCrab V5.0.3 has locked all of them" "They want 600 dollars to give me back my children, that's what they've done, they've taken my boys away from me for a some filthy money. How can I pay them 600 dollars if I barely have enough money to put food on the table for me and my wife?" After seeing this tweet, the GandCrab developers posted on a forum that they have released the keys for all Syrian victims. They also stated that it was a mistake that Syria was not added to the original list of countries that GandCrab would not encrypt, but did not say if they would be added going forward. In the post is a link to a zip file that contains the released decryption keys for Syrian victims. This zip file contains the readme.txt and SY_keys.txt files. The readme.txt file contains information on how the key file is organized and information on why the keys were released. As the contents of this file are in Russian, I have included the translated version below. [...] Read the full article at the source. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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