Data of 2,500 victims rescued thanks to No More Ransom – ZDNet.be

On July 25, 2016 was No More Ransom project started by The Dutch police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab. The project aims to enable people and businesses to protect against the dangers of ransomware. This type of malware embeds itself on the computer of his victims, and encrypts all files that it can find. Cyber criminals ask for big money to their victims to the documents back to decrypt.

recovery and Prevention

On the website of No More Ransom are several tips to avoid you fall victim to ransomware. So recommend the website to you at any time, a backup of your system, antivirus software, and your software up-to-date. Also, you are allowed anyone on the internet, just trust, do you have to the extensions of files to be shown by Windows, and you need to your computer disconnecting from the internet and home network when you have a suspicious process on your pc to notice.

as well as help with the prevention of infection with ransomware helps No More Ransom also people whose files are already encrypted. On the website there are tools that you files can decrypt it without your ransom need to be paid to cyber criminals. Are you a victim of a Wildfire, Chimera, Teslacrypt, Shade, CoinVault, Rannoh, or Rakhni? No More Ransom can help you.

Success

That people yearn for such an initiative is evident from the bezoekerscijfers of No More Ransom. In the short three months time that the website is online and has a total of 24.5 million page views. This means that the website is up 0.4 million visitors per day. Between all these visitors, more than 2,500 people, of which their data is saved thanks to one of the decryptietools.

These good results not only ensure that people are more aware of the dangers of ransomware, the revenues of cyber criminals is greatly reduced. To estimate the decryptietools to ensure that hackers 1.35 million to ransom his miss.

New members

"Despite the growing challenges the initiative has demonstrated that a coordinated approach of the relevant partners in the EU can lead to significant successes in the fight against this type of crime. I am convinced that the online portal will continue to improve in the coming months. All police forces to be cordially encouraged to join in the fight," says Steven Wilson, head of the European Cybercrime Centre.

in the Meantime, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom accepted the invitation.