Advocacy advice that FBI take the data as hostage to the victim of cyber crime "to pay ransom", Kaspersky argues against this

Malware that "limits access to an infected computer and makes ransom for a hostage hostage" that computers and some data will be unusable unless you pay moneyRansomwareis.Photos and movies of Android smartphoneTo hostage,Game dataRansomu wearing a hostage as a hostage became a hot topic, but it has become clear that the FBI advised the people actually victims to "pay ransom" for them.

CoinVault and Bitcryptor victims can get their files back for free | Kaspersky Lab Official Blog
https://usblog.kaspersky.com/dont-pay-ransom/6208/

It was held in Boston at the end of October 2015Cyber ​​Security Summit"Joseph Bonavolonta, who is in charge of cyber & spy prevention activity program at FBI, gave a lecture on how authorities are dealing with Ransomware. Among them, Mr. Bonavolonta said, "To be honest, we often advise the victims to pay the ransom," the shock comment is left.

This comment was featured in overseas media as well.

FBI recommends that victims of ransomware pay up | efforts to defeat the encryption used have proved futile -https://t.co/RUmFZXkvSr

- SC Magazine UK (@ SCmagazine UK)2015, October 28

"This is a bad way", denying that FBI's advice is wrong is the development of security software developmentKaspersky. Kaspersky does not have any guarantee that data will come back just because he paid the ransom, "rather than paying $ 500 (about 60,000 yen) to take back the son's photograph as taken hostage , I suggest that you better buy something else instead of something else? "

Also, paying ransom to Ransomware can not only warm the criminal's bosom but also helps fund the subsequent crime, Kaspersky. Furthermore, if criminals perceive that "Ransomware is profitable," it is obvious that more crimes using randomness wear will occur.

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Then, if it says whether to give up the data taken to the hostage, it is not so, it is possible to regain data free of charge. Companies developing security software, police and security-related experts are acquiring keys for deciphering the Ransomware from servers used by criminals in investigating the behavior of cyber criminals There is. Such data is released on the web for free, and "Ransomware decryptor" provided by Kaspersky Lab is one such decoding tool.

Ransomware decryptor | Kaspersky Lab


In the fall of 2015, Kaspersky cooperated with the Dutch police and damaged tens of thousands of users in over 100 countries around the worldDedicated to stopping RansomuueaI succeeded in getting the decryption keys of two Ransomuware "CoinVault" and "Bitcryptor". In addition, it seems that all the more than 14000 decryption keys obtained by this investigation cooperation are shared with the link "Ransomware decryptor".

In addition, victims of Ransomware such as "CoinVault" and "Bitcryptor" can also search for the data taken by hostages from "Ransomware decryptor" site.

However, these software and sites against Ransomware are not yet complete. Kaspersky said, "It is much more important to prevent infection with Ransomware than to find a way to return encrypted data," even if infected with Ransomware wears PCs We recommend that you back up regularly.