Score one for the good guys.
Catalin Cimpanu reports:
Bitdefender believes the criminal group behind the GandCrab ransomware has lost an estimated $1 million in ransom payments after the company released a free decryption utility for GandCrab victims last week.
The Romanian antivirus maker says that at least 1,700 GandCrab victims were able to successfully decrypt GandCrab-locked files within hours after the tool’s release.
Most of these users were located in South Korea, China, India, and the US, according to statistics released by the company yesterday.
Read more on ZDNet.