Victims of ThunderX ransomware can recover their files for free

Good news for the victims of the ThunderX ransomware, cybersecurity firm Tesorion has released a decryptor to recover their files for free.

Cybersecurity firm Tesorion has released a free decryptor for the ThunderX ransomware that allows victims to recover their files.

ThunderX is ransomware that appeared in the threat landscape recently, infections were discovered at the end of August 2020.

Researchers developed a decryptor for the ransomware after they have discovered a bug in the encryption process implemented by the threat.

This decryptor can recover for free files encrypted by the current version of the ThunderX ransomware that appends the .tx_locked extension to the filename of the decrypted files.

In order to recover the files, victims have to upload a copy of the readme.txt ransom note and an encrypted file to receive a decryption key.

The decryptor can be downloaded from the website of the NoMoreRansom project that already has helped victims of multiple ransomware to save more than one hundred million of ransom.

When the decryption process is completed, the decryptor will show a summary of the files successfully and those once for which the recovery failed.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.