The authors of the infamous GandCrab ransomware have released the decryption keys for all Syrian victims in an underground cybercrime forum.
Gandcrab developers’ post – Source Bleeping Computer
The crooks decided to release the decryption keys after a Syrian Twitter user published a harrowing message asking for help after photos of his deceased children were encrypted by the ransomware.
The GandCrab developers explained that it was not their intention to infect Syrian users, their message on the hacking forum includes a link to a zip file containing the decryption keys for Syrian victims.
“This zip file contains the readme.txt in Russian language and SY_keys.txt files. The readme.txt file contains information on how the key file is organized and information on why the keys were released.” states Bleeping Computer.
“The most important thing is not to indicate that he will help everyone. It will help only a citizen of Syria. Because of their political situation, economic and relations with the CIS countries. We regret that we did not initially add this country to the exceptions. But at least that way we can help them now.” reads the message from the author of the ransomware.
The SY_keys.txt file includes a list of 978 decryption keys for Syrian victims whose systems have been infected with GandCrab version 1.0 through 5.0.
Syrian victims that are not included in the file could receive the decryption keys by providing the GandCrab developers a picture of themselves, their passport, and their payment page. Providing crooks pictures of their passport is very risky, this kind of documents could be resold by the crooks or used by them for identity thefts.
Experts believe that security firms will develop a decryption tool based on the released encryption keys.
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(Security Affairs – GandCrab ransomware, cybercrime)
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