Researchers have neutralized the latest strain of the Jaff ransomware, releasing a decryption tool for unlocking files.

Researchers have neutralized the threat of the latest strain of CryptXXX v.3 ransomware, releasing a decryption tool for unlocking files.

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on ShadowBrokers and Cisco, the Sweet32 collision attack, decryptors for the Wildfire ransomware, and this week’s gaming forum breaches. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_August_26_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

The No More Ransom initiative released decryption keys for yet another strain of ransomware this week; now victims of the mostly Dutch-leaning ransomware called WildFire can get their files back without paying attackers. According to an update from the Dutch National Police on Wednesday, when it took down command and control server responsible for WildFire, it was...