There’s a gleam of hope for the victims of WannaCry hack. If you are among those thousands who are affected by the WannaCry ransomware attack then there is a fix for you given that you have not rebooted your PC since your system got infected. Security researchers have developed WannaCry fix for infected PCs that helps you get rid of the said ransomware and restore your system files. However, the fix works only if you’re running between Windows XP to 7 version.
WannaCry is the largest ransomware cyber attack in the world and it is not over yet. It has already infected over 3,00,000 systems in around 150 nations including India, briefly locking down several institutions, banks, organisations, etc. across the world. The team of researchers has created a workaround in an attempt to unlock data encryption for files that are triggered by WannaCry ransomware.
Security researcher Benjamin Delpy, a.k.a ‘gentilkiwi’ has released a fix for the WannaCry issue called ‘wanakiwi’ for infected PCs.
You must be eager to know how WannaCry fix for infected PCs will work. It’s a simple process and is really easy to understand. The program search for a prime number that is the basis of the encryption in the infected computer memory, which would be removed from the PC in question in case you’d restarted your system. Once the prime number is found, the fix uses it to generate unlock keys for the encrypted files. WannaCry fix for infected PCs is based on the Adrien Guinet’s wannakey, which was designed to recover Windows XP keys.
The tool came in the market only after the testing of various centres. From which Europol’s European Cyber Crime Centre is one among rest which has tested the new tool and has found it efficient to recover the infected/lost data in some circumstances.
The WannaCry attack which infect PCs as well as encrypt important data available on them demands $300 in Bitcoin to decrypt the infected system’s files. Hopefully, the fix found by Security researcher Benjamin Delpy will help some of you who don’t want to (or maybe unable to) pay the $300 in Bitcoin demanded by attackers.
