EPIC Fail — For the Third Time, Linux Ransomware CRACKED!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ransomware is now a common practice for money-motivated cyber criminals. It's basically a type of software written in any system-based programming language that has the ability to hijack victim’s computer, encrypts files and then ask for a ransom amount to get them back.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uJX7Ry1HFa5N6WGMe4dyaECw2p32s8WT9xNm2sq261tZyRQ90T4kddMruy9RhxT_WRE-Hw_unmbnIlPkBok90LedWo3faQqUfNZUhzl4qW9AD5rxKlwRmYeMSspCnntChFwbD9xKsFQF/s1600/linux-ransomware-decryption-keys.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5uJX7Ry1HFa5N6WGMe4dyaECw2p32s8WT9xNm2sq261tZyRQ90T4kddMruy9RhxT_WRE-Hw_unmbnIlPkBok90LedWo3faQqUfNZUhzl4qW9AD5rxKlwRmYeMSspCnntChFwbD9xKsFQF/s1600/linux-ransomware-decryption-keys.png" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> One such ransomware dubbed Linux.Encoder targets Linux-powered websites and servers by encrypting MySQL, Apache, and home/root folders associated with the target site and asks for 1 Bitcoin (<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$453.99</i></b>) to decrypt those crucial files.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> But, the good news is it is very easy to get rid of it.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Open Sans', arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Malware author released the third version of the Linux.Encoder ransomware, which security researchers from Bitdefender have managed to crack, yet again, after breaking previous two versions.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> However, before the team managed to release the Linux.Encoder decryption tool, the third iteration of Linux.Encoder ransomware, which was first discovered by antivirus maker Dr.Web, has infected a nearly 600 servers worldwide.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <h3 style="border: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 35px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Linux.Encoder Decryption Tool</h3> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br style="content: ' '; display: block; margin: 20px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Though victims who got infected by the third version of <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Linux.Encoder</i> ransomware doesn't have to pay any ransom to get your important files back, and they can simply unlock it using Bitdefender's <a href="http://labs.bitdefender.com/wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=encoder_3_decrypter.zip" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #4184f3; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Linux.Encoder decryption tool</a> to unlock their files.</div> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> But the epic part here is even after the successful decryption of its previous Linux.Encoder ransomware versions, the group of ransomware creators, were still not able to write a perfect code for its third version.</div> <blockquote class="tr_bq" style="background-color: #f9f9f9; border-left-color: rgb(191, 202, 218); border-left-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 8px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 10px; quotes: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"As we expected, the creators of Linux.Encoder have fixed their previous bugs and have come up with a new and improved variant,"</i> <a href="https://labs.bitdefender.com/2016/01/third-iteration-of-linux-ransomware-still-not-ready-for-prime-time/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; color: #4184f3; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">says</a> BitDefender boffin Radu Caragea. <i style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"Luckily for the victims, the new variant of Linux.Encoder is still vulnerable to key recovery attacks."</i></blockquote> <div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It seems that the malware authors of Linux.encoder ransomware are newbie programmers who are just motivated by the success of other popular ransomware such as CryptoWall and CryptoLocker.</div> </div> </div> </div>

EPIC Fail — For the Third Time, Linux Ransomware CRACKED!

Ransomware is now a common practice for money-motivated cyber criminals. It's basically a type of software written in any system-based programming language that has the ability to hijack victim’s com…

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