First Linux ransomware program cracked, for now

Administrators of Web servers that were infected with a recently released ransomware program for Linux are in luck: There’s now a free tool that can decrypt their files.

The tool was created by malware researchers from antivirus firm Bitdefender, who found a major flaw in how the Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware uses encryption.

The program makes files unreadable by using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), which uses the same key for both the encryption and decryption operations. The AES key is then encrypted too by using RSA, an asymmetric encryption algorithm.

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