Ransomware authors are human. They make mistakes.
And their mistakes mean that you might be able to recover your encrypted data.
Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
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The best defense against ransomware has been comprehensive backup, but ExtraHop is introducing a way to capture files just before ransomware encrypts them, making it possible to restore them but without relying on the backups.
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A software upgrade to ExtraHop’s Ransomware Detection bundle picks up on precursors to ransomware encrypting files and captures them before the malware has the chance to encrypt.
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The CryPy ransomware steals a list of filenames, and uses a unique encryption key for each one – which makes variable file pricing possible.
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