Hope for WannaCry victims: decryption tools released online


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 24 May 2017

TOPSHOT - A window announcing the encryption of data including a requirement to pay appears on an electronic timetable display at the railway station in Chemnitz, eastern Germany, on May 12, 2017. A fast-moving wave of cyberattacks swept the globe, apparently exploiting a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency. Affected by the onslaught were computer networks at hospitals in Britain, Russia's interior ministry, the Spanish telecom giant Telefonica, the US delivery firm FedEx, German railway operator Deutsche Bahn and many other organizations. / AFP PHOTO / dpa / P. GOETZELT / Germany OUT

Owners of computers infected with WannaCry ransomware need not despair. The first round of decryption programs have been released on the developer platform GitHub. 

Among them is a tool from IT security experts from France, who claim they have found a way of freeing affected computers from the ransomware that recently infected thousands of systems across the globe in a matter of hours. 

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