“Kaspersky Lab”, Intel, and Europol set up a website to deal with cryptographers – TASS

MOSCOW, July 25. / TASS /. “Kaspersky Lab”, Intel Security, as well as Europol (European Police Union) and the police of the Netherlands set up a special web portal to combat viruses, cryptographers. This is stated in the report, “Kaspersky Lab”.

Viruses coders handle files, making them unreadable without a special key. To gain access to the file the user is invited to send an sms-message to the number for which the fraudsters to withdraw money from the account as a ransom. At the same time the consequences of data encryption is often not possible to eliminate the reinstallation of the operating system.

The project to combat the programs-cryptographers and extortionists called No More Ransom allows users to find information about the coders and the threats posed by them, and also get the free tools to recover their data if they have been “treated” like malware. “To date, there is no universal tool to decrypt the data, there are only a few keys, suitable for the specific malware”, – explained in the

“lab Kaspersky” Project participants No More Ransom sure that in any case of a collision. The cypher users should report the incident to law enforcement agencies. The experts do not recommend paying attackers ransom for restoring access to encrypted data, because in reality it does not guarantee that the lost files will be returned.

“The main problem with cryptographers and extortionists today is that often the victim agree to pay the attackers, because they see no other way to regain access to their valuable data, “- said a senior analyst at antivirus” Kaspersky Lab “Fedor Sinitsyn, quoted in a statement. According to him, it “urges on cybercrime economy”, and change the situation can only by coordinating the actions of all stakeholders. Sinitsyn hopes that “soon the project will join other companies and law enforcement agencies of other countries”.

“Over the past few years, coders have become one of the major challenges for European law enforcement agencies. This threat affects citizens and business, computers and mobile devices, and the attackers in the meantime continue to develop ever more sophisticated techniques, in order to provide the most negative impact on the user data, “- said Deputy Director of Europol on operational matters wil van Gemert

the head of the national crime investigation unit. police Netherlands Wilbert Paulissen, in turn, stressed that the fight against cyber crime (and in particular with the cryptographers) – a task that requires the joint efforts of law enforcement officials, lawyers, Europol and iT-companies

Earlier “Laboratory. Kaspersky “reported that the number of attacks using software-cryptographers increased 5.5 times – from 131 thousand in the period from April 2014 to March 2015 to 719 thousand in the period from April 2015 March 2016. .