Although evil with what today's mainstream film and television work, but life is often the opposite of the scene appears.
For example, well-known extortion virus GandCrab developers who, after earn enough money and fame, the initiative announced his retirement this month, will return to real life.
Prior to this, they have caused property damage countless businesses worldwide users, a total ransom of up to $ 2 billion, and was behind not subjected to any punishment.
What is GandCrab
In late January 2018, a new type of blackmail GandCrab virus called the Internet spread.
After the first generation of virus in the computer's file encryption victims, their will for ransom in order to recover these files.
Unlike other viruses blackmail Bitcoin requirements, GandCrab to ask for money as ransom 1.54 of the World, at the time equivalent to about $ 1200.
Multiple variants outbreak
Gandcrab the "vitality" extremely tenacious, more than a year experienced a number of variants of the outbreak.
Virus in the birth of a half months spread to more countries around the world. At that time, the "epidemic" is also very serious, the black data relate area, transportation and other social services network, bad influence.
Soon, GandCrab second generation, third generation and fourth-generation variant turn a comeback after the first generation of virus is resolved, so that national Internet security agencies get bored.
GandCrab can be said that the first half of 2018 to 2019, the most active of blackmail virus.
The impact of its large, alerted Romanian police and security company Bitdefender Internet and Europol to develop decryption tool.
Also, this tool is in support of the European countries and the United States the FBI completed, for a total undergone three updates.
Just a half months ago, there are still domestic users, said the company in a GandCrab computer virus after extortion, helpless under the direct format the hard drive, fill a month of data.
He announced his retirement plans
GandCrab extortion virus developers rely mainly on hacker sites and forums to promote the sale of malicious software, ransom split between developers and operators.
Local time on June 1, GandCrab developers in the forums high-profile announcement: they rely on extortion virus has acquired more than $ 2 million ransom, and has successfully fulfilled, through various channels to be legalized.
In addition, they claimed to have stopped promotion of extortion software requirements of the relevant operators to stop distributing ransomware within 20 days, and delete at the end.
Developers said: "We are ready to retire we have proved that even evil will not be revenge."
In other words, this may be the end of these last GandCrab stealing money.
For users and security personnel has been lost, this announcement is quite Qianbian pass.
The story behind the high-profile
From the developer statement, we can see GandCrab blackmail virus hehe scenery "exploits" side.
But in fact, since this year, GandCrab virus developers in the fight against national security officer also sudden, many jokes, eat a lot defeat.
And, after Bitdefender released descrambler, GandCrab virus activity has been declining.
But in any case, GandCrab to many companies still causing incalculable damage, take the initiative to shut down the virus can be considered a good thing.
Here, we once again remind users who do not generate too strong curiosity about unfamiliar websites, advertising, mail, etc., in order to put the virus strangled in the cradle before the move.
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