MarsJoke Ransomware Made into Laughing Stock by Decryption Tool

MarsJoke ransomware once posed a serious threat to users, but not as much now that researchers released a decryption tool. Kaspersky Lab’s Anton Ivanov, Orkhan Mamedov, Fedor Sinitsyn said they created the decryptor by exploiting a flaw in the ransomware’s code. Specifically, MarsJoke uses a function “rand()” to randomly generate an array of characters. That […]… Read More

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