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Best Practices: Identify What Ransomware Locked Your Data

David Balaban
Last updated: 2016/05/24 at 10:51 AM
David Balaban
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ID Ransomware is a free website that has been launched by malware researches and where the victims of ransomware attacks can obtain help in dealing with their difficult situation. This website can make the life of victims easier by letting them identify the variant of the ransomware their computer has been affected with. This makes it quite simple to figure out a way in which one can recover the infected files without having to pay a ransom.

ID Ransomware is a free website that has been launched by malware researches and where the victims of ransomware attacks can obtain help in dealing with their difficult situation. This website can make the life of victims easier by letting them identify the variant of the ransomware their computer has been affected with. This makes it quite simple to figure out a way in which one can recover the infected files without having to pay a ransom.

Whenever one is attacked by a ransomware virus, the first and foremost thing that the victim needs to know is what encrypted the files and the possible manner in which decryption can be done without having to pay the ransom.

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ID Ransomware can be a guide to the victim and offers accurate information regarding the attack. All the users need to do is to upload any encrypted file or the ransom note to obtain the best results. This site employs various techniques to identify a specific ransomware variant. The file patterns and the ransom note are analyzed on ID Ransomware to make the process a lot easier.  

Depending on the load of the server, the website offers the results in a couple of seconds. Having information about the ransomware is like winning half of the battle against it. The site also provides links to resources from where the decrypter can be downloaded if you are one of the lucky victims. The tool can be downloaded and used for decrypting the files. The victims who do not get a link for decrypting would be redirected to the Bleeping Computer community forum where the victims can ask for support from the experts.  

Currently, the tool identifies up to 86 variants of ransomware families. The list of ransomware viruses that is supported by ID Ransomware is displayed on the homepage of the website. You can check out the latest additions as well from the homepage. ID Ransomware does not decrypt the data but helps in figuring out the files that have been encrypted. This tool helps the victims in figuring out the right path to choose after being aware that the files have been encrypted.

The files uploaded on the website are analyzed immediately from the signature database. When the results are obtained, the information is deleted immediately from the website database. Data uploading is done over SSL. This implies that the connection of the user with the ID ransomware website cannot be intercepted by cybercriminals or any other third-party. If the result is not found, the file uploaded is then shared with the trusted analysts in the cyber security industry to research, create detection processes and find if decryption is possible.

There are several ransomware viruses that utilize similar signatures and behavior and make use of the same extension while encrypting the files. This poses difficulties in few cases and it becomes difficult to be one hundred percent certain about the result being displayed. That is why it is strongly advised to upload both the encrypted file and the ransomware note.

Ransomware has become one of the major problems that the web users have been facing in the recent years. These are not regular viruses, ransomware is dangerous because the data gets locked and money is demanded by the attackers for unlocking the information. Businesses and governmental organizations are most impacted by these attacks as the information contained in their systems is very important. This is the reason why these institutions are targeted the most.

The cyber security experts are regularly studying new ransomware variants and have developed several decryptors already. ID ransomware helps the victim in figuring out if there is any alternative way instead of paying ransom to the attackers. ID ransomware is a free service offered online and has been developed after carrying out intense research on ransomware viruses that have been troubling people all over the world. The website is getting regularly updated for new variants of ransomware and offers hope to the victims.    

David Balaban May 24, 2016
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