{"id":34581,"date":"2021-01-12T12:38:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T10:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=34581"},"modified":"2025-08-28T21:17:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:17:51","slug":"bitdefender-releases-free-decryptor-for-darkside-ransomware-encrypted-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitdefender-releases-free-decryptor-for-darkside-ransomware-encrypted-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitdefender releases free decryptor for Darkside ransomware-encrypted files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bitdefender&#8217;s antivirus researchers have released a <a href=\"https:\/\/labs.bitdefender.com\/2021\/01\/darkside-ransomware-decryption-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">free decryptor<\/a> for files encrypted by the DarkSide ransomware.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The tool scans the system and automatically identifies the extensions of the encrypted files.<\/p>\n<p>Before starting the decryption process, the tool&#8217;s creators advise backing up files to avoid potential loss or damage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_121836\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121836\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121836\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-4-1.png\" alt=\"Free decryptor for files encrypted by the Darkside ransomware\" width=\"441\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-4-1.png 441w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-4-1-300x201.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-121836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Bitdefender.com.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Researchers first detected the DarkSide ransomware in August 2020. In November it spread widely under the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model. The primary targets were large corporate networks.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2020, the creators of Darkside donated <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/hackers-transfer-20000-in-bitcoin-to-charity\">$10,000 in cryptocurrency<\/a> to two charitable organizations. They received the money as a result of their ransomware attack.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s Telegram news: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitdefender&#8217;s antivirus researchers released a free decryptor for files encrypted by the Darkside ransomware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154,1192],"class_list":["post-34581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes","tag-developers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34583,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34581\/revisions\/34583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}