Security News > 2022 > September > Bitdefender releases free decryptor for LockerGoga ransomware
Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor to help LockerGoga ransomware victims recover their files without paying a ransom.
Bitdefender says the decryptor can operate either on a single machine or on entire networks encrypted by LockerGoga.
The LockerGoga ransomware operation launched in January 2019, hitting high-profile targets such as the French engineering firm Altran Technologies and the Norwegian aluminum giant Norsk Hydro.
Together with Ryuk and MegaCortex, LockerGoga was involved in ransomware attacks against at least 1,800 organizations worldwide.
In October 2021, twelve individuals were arrested in an international law enforcement operation for deploying various ransomware strains, including LockerGoga.
"Its operator, who has been detained since October 2021 pending trial, is part of a larger cybercrime ring that used LockerGoga and MegaCortext ransomware to infect more than 1,800 persons and institutions in 71 countries to cause an estimated damage of $US 104 million," Bitdefender explains in the decryptor announcement.