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FBI warns US organizations of ProLock ransomware decryptor not working

May 18, 2020

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Early this month, the FBI‌ issued a flash alert to warn organizations of the new threat actor targeting healthcare, government, financial, and retail industries in the US.

“The decryption key or ‘decryptor’ provided by the attackers upon paying the ransom has not routinely executed correctly,” states the alert.

“The decryptor can potentially corrupt files that are larger than 64MB and may result in file integrity loss of approximately 1 byte per 1KB over 100MB.”

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