Shade Ransomware shuts down, releases 750K decryption keys (opens in new tab)

(bleepingcomputer.com)

3 pointszynkb0a6y ago2 comments

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zynkb0aOP6y ago· 1 in thread

Here is the team's GitHub: https://github.com/shade-team/keys

What a bizarre situation. I'm wondering what the motivation would be to just apologize and dump decryption keys.

>Kaspersky Lab's Sergey Golovanov told BleepingComputer that he was able to confirm that the keys are valid and was able to use them to decrypt a test machine.

wizzwizz46y ago

If it's no longer making them money (they've shut down), I see why they'd do this. Even if you getting money is worth more than others' data, their data probably still has some positive value in your ethics system. (Otherwise your malware would wipe everything once you were done.)

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