The use of ransomware has been on the rise in recent years and will be as there will always be curious people opening files of unknown origin. We have already read about victims who paid thousands of dollars to acquire access in their records. 
Victims are included from Police Departments to universities.
Really would you pay a ransom to unlock your files? Whatever the answer after such an attack, you should visit the No More Ransom page.
The site created by Interpol, the Dutch police, Kaspersky and Intel, and offers a range of detection and decryption tools. You'll also find plenty of tips on how to protect your data from ransomware.
You can upload your files to the site and check if any of the 160.000 decryption keys in your database are made by you.
Let's say that the keys do not do for everyone and so they may not help you retrieve your files. But it is definitely worth going through No More Ransom before you pay the scammers.
Warning: If you are a victim of such maliciousυ software before proceeding to decrypt your infected files, try with a small file, as there is a chance that if the decoder is not correct, it will destroy your data.
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