{"id":15144,"date":"2016-05-19T14:31:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kasperskydaily.com\/b2b\/?p=5584"},"modified":"2024-09-13T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T14:17:10","slug":"teslacrypt-has-gone-away-ransomware-problem-hasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/teslacrypt-has-gone-away-ransomware-problem-hasnt\/15144\/","title":{"rendered":"TeslaCrypt has gone away, ransomware problem hasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a highly surprising move, the notorious Teslacrypt authors have wrapped up their operation and even released the ransomware\u2019s master key, so that all victims of this particular ransomware can now regain control of their files \u2014 without paying anything to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the reason behind Teslacrypt\u2019s shutdown is unknown, as is the reason its creators have made the generous gesture of giving out its master key. But they have done so \u2014 and even published <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/images\/news\/ransomware\/t\/teslacrypt\/teslacrypt-closed\/teslacrypt-closed.png\">\u201cwe are sorry\u201d message<\/a> on their now-defunct site<\/p>\n<p>Bleeping Computer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/teslacrypt-shuts-down-and-releases-master-decryption-key\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">reports<\/a> that the previous distributors of TeslaCrypt have switched over to distributing the already-notorious CryptXXX ransomware.<\/p>\n<p>TeslaCrypt was among the most successful and dangerous ransomware campaigns of late. Its sudden termination is a mystery. However, TeslaCrypt isn\u2019t the only ransomware terrorizing users and businesses. It is still necessary to take precautions.<\/p>\n<input type=\"hidden\" class=\"category_for_banner\" value=\"kesb-ransomware\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a highly surprising move, the notorious Teslacrypt authors have wrapped up their operation and released the ransomware&#8217;s master key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1999,3052],"tags":[420,1106],"class_list":{"0":"post-15144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-smb","8":"tag-ransomware","9":"tag-teslacrypt"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/teslacrypt-has-gone-away-ransomware-problem-hasnt\/15144\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/teslacrypt-has-gone-away-ransomware-problem-hasnt\/15144\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/teslacrypt-has-gone-away-ransomware-problem-hasnt\/15144\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/ransomware\/","name":"Ransomware"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52149,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15144\/revisions\/52149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}