{"id":7967,"date":"2016-11-15T05:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T10:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/uk\/?p=7967"},"modified":"2019-11-22T10:08:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T10:08:39","slug":"crisis-decrypted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/7967\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crysis Crisis is now over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2016, another new strain of <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/analysis\/publications\/75145\/pc-ransomware-in-2014-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ransomware<\/a> hit the scene \u2013 its name was akin to what may victims feel when they are hit with ransomware \u2013 Crysis.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past nine months, this strain of ransomware attacked 1.15% of Internet users (Kaspersky Lab Data). The majority of victims are located in Russia, Japan, South and North Korea and Brazil. The ransomware also took ninth position in the <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.com\/analysis\/quarterly-malware-reports\/76513\/it-threat-evolution-q3-2016-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">top 10 ransomware rankings for 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Victimized by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Crysis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#Crysis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ransomware?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#ransomware<\/a>? The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/crisis?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#crisis<\/a> is over \u2013 decrypt your files <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/free?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#free<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LEqjwtR1sP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/LEqjwtR1sP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SFc67M1O66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/SFc67M1O66<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaspersky\/status\/798218228660998144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">November 14, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well, for those victims, today is a day to rejoice. Earlier in the day, a set of encryption keys for the Crysis trojan were released to the public. Immediately after receiving the keys, our experts created a decryption tool.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOnce again, we are happy to announce that one more ransomware threat has been decrypted. Kaspersky Lab\u2019s free Crysis decryption tool is available for downloading <a href=\"http:\/\/media.kaspersky.com\/utilities\/VirusUtilities\/EN\/RakhniDecryptor.zip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">here<\/a>\u201c, notes Anton Ivanov, Senior malware analyst\u00a0at Kaspersky Lab.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaspersky Lab adds decryption for Crysis Ransomware. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":7968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2026],"tags":[1692,441,1413,529,241,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-7967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-threats","9":"tag-crysis","10":"tag-ransomware","11":"tag-ransomware-decryptor","12":"tag-threats","13":"tag-trojan","14":"tag-virus"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/7967\/"},{"hreflang":"es-mx","url":"https:\/\/latam.kaspersky.com\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/7950\/"},{"hreflang":"es","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.es\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/9533\/"},{"hreflang":"it","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.it\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/9330\/"},{"hreflang":"ru","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.ru\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/13598\/"},{"hreflang":"fr","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.fr\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/6318\/"},{"hreflang":"de","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.de\/blog\/crisis-decrypted\/9215\/"},{"hreflang":"ru-kz","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.kz\/crisis-decrypted\/13598\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/crysis\/","name":"Crysis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17606,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7967\/revisions\/17606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}