Security News > 2020 > April > Shade Ransomware Authors Release Decryption Keys
The developers behind the Shade ransomware on Monday announced that they ceased operations and publicly released decryption keys to let their victims recover files for free.
Now, the ransomware's authors say they actually stopped distributing the malware at the end of last year, and that they now decided to completely close shop and release over 750,000 decryption keys, along with their decryption utility.
"Now we made a decision to put the last point in this story and to publish all the decryption keys we have. We are also publishing our decryption soft; we also hope that, having the keys, antivirus companies will issue their own more user-friendly decryption tools," the ransomware authors noted on GitHub.
The ransomware authors published instructions on how victims can recover their files even without the help of dedicated decryption tools.
Victims are advised to wait for anti-malware companies to release official decryption tools for files encrypted by Shade, but there's no information available yet on when such utilities will become available.