Security News > 2022 > March > Decrypting Hive Ransomware Data

Ransomware encrypts data and demands a ransom in exchange for decryption.

As data recovery is impossible if the encryption key is not obtained, some companies suffer from considerable damage, such as the payment of huge amounts of money or the loss of important data.

Hive ransomware has caused immense harm, leading the FBI to issue an alert about it.

To minimize the damage caused by Hive Ransomware and to help victims recover their files, we analyzed Hive Ransomware and studied recovery methods.

We have recovered the master key for generating the file encryption key partially, to enable the decryption of data encrypted by Hive ransomware.

To the best of our knowledge, this is the first successful attempt at decrypting Hive ransomware.

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