New Tool Helps Victims Fight Bitcoin Ransomware

By April 14, 2015Bitcoin Business

Kaspersky Lab has released a new tool to help free computer files ‘held hostage’ by bitcoin ransomware.

CoinVault, which has infected 700 computers in the Netherlands so far, is a strain of malware that demands a rising amount of bitcoin to unlock encrypted files on the victim’s computer.

Thanks to Kaspersky’s ransomeware decrypter , users may now be able to do so for free.The tool was created after Dutch authorities shared a database of CoinVault’s information (including IVs, […]

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