No More Ransom - the flag of the war against ransomware
No More Ransom is a fledgling security organization, founded three years ago with the goal of wiping out ransomware software from the Internet world - just like its name suggests. After 3 years of active operation, No More Ransom has quickly become the name that received the most affection in the security - cyber security world. With a high level of technical expertise, along with the enthusiasm and dedication, the researchers of No More Ransom are always known as the leaders in all prevention and remedial campaigns from ransomware, which helps thousands of businesses and tens of thousands of individuals worldwide retrieve data from hackers at no cost.
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Ransomware has caused billions of dollars in damage worldwide for years
In the celebration of No More Ransom 3 years old, let's explore the story of the miraculous success of this young security organization - the savior of the security world - the success story built through Gray, determination, love for work, and above all, the spirit of fighting against the bad.
No More Ransomware was established at the end of July 2016 from the decision of a security alliance of national-level cyber security organizations, including the European Cybercrime Center of Europol, High-tech crime prevention unit of the Netherland National High Tech Crime Unit, and McAfee security company, to create a regular, professional, capable team to fight ransomware is at the highest level (global campaign level), and provides free data decoding and cross-support for victims of extortion worldwide.
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No More Ransom - credible address for ransomware victims
After 3 years of operation and development, No More Ransom is now a reliable partner of 151 network security organizations, white hat hacker groups, as well as the world's leading forums, magazines and newspapers. These are the factors that help No More Ransom products such as data decoders, information and in-depth help packages reach more victims of ransomware.
No More Ransom's support packages are increasingly accessible to more victims
108 million dollars and the meaning is even greater
According to statistics, in the past 3 years, No More Ransom's systems have had 3 million visitors and now they are in the hands of the repository including 89 effective ransomware decoders, which can help decode and retrieve Data from 109 different species or ransomware variants have been recorded worldwide.
Through reports on the use of these decoders, No More Ransom estimates that they have helped more than 200,000 organizations and individuals retrieve data from malicious code without losing any money, figures This is equivalent to about 108 million dollars of ransom saved.
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No More Ransom and its distribution partners
Successfully supporting more than 200,000 victims and helping them save huge amounts of up to $ 108 million is a commendable achievement for a fledgling security organization like No More Ransom. However, according to observers, this amount is in fact much higher.
Since May 2019, No More Ransom decoders for some famous codes such as GandCrab or LooCipher have been posted through many news sites, large technology forums and received by the community. enthusiasm. In particular, only at the BleepingComputer security site, No More Ransom's decoders have been downloaded more than 320,000 times. So if calculated from other sources, this security organization's decoder has certainly been downloaded millions of times. That's not to mention the number of downloads from the previous month and year for some other popular decryption decoding tools such as TeslaCrypt, Jigsaw, or HiddenTear .
In addition, it is difficult to fully statistics on how many victims can successfully recover their data with decoders. But after all, the exact statistics of data are not as important as the fact that No More Ransom has made a great contribution in the field of security in general and ransomware prevention in particular - which has been widely recognized. spread around the world.
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Another security company and partner of No More Ransom - Emsisoft - also believes that the number of victims and data ransom that No More Ransom has saved them is even many times bigger. figure above.
'Accurate statistics of data will be based on successful decoding times confirmed by remote data collection, while our tools and many other technology sites like BleepingComputer clown included. According to our estimates, No More Ransom decoders that Emsisoft has uploaded may have been downloaded more than 1.6 million times, so it would be more accurate to say that they helped save data ransom. up to $ 800 globally ", representative of security company Emsisoft said.
Finally, the real concern of experts at No More Ransom is not how much money their decoders have saved, but how many people have reached the decoder and retrieved. Backing up your important data from hackers by simple, No More Ransom is a non-profit organization, working for a safer internet world for everyone.
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After 3 years of formation and development, No More Ransom is now the flagship in the fight against ransomware
Celebrate the great success of No More Ransom after 3 years of formation and development. At the same time, I hope this great security organization will grow even stronger to produce more impressive products. All for a world without ransomware!
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