Just three months after No More Ransom project announcement, more law enforcement agencies from 13 countries have agreed to fight ransomware with private businesses.
The new members of the project are: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Colombia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and United Kingdom (don't look for Greece, no one is saving us, it seems the ransom will be paid).
In the coming months, more law enforcement agencies and private sector organizations are expected to join the project.
Their collaboration will lead to more free decryption tools available free of charge, helping more and more people to decipher their devices and unlock their information. Virtually the project hurts cybercriminals where they are most painful: in their wallets.
Project objectives are supported by Eurojust and the European Commission, demonstrating the EU's concern about the rising threat of ransomware.
No More Ransom started 25 July 2016 from the Dutch National Police (Dutch National Police) the Europol, Intel Security and the Kaspersky Lab, introducing a new level of cooperation between law enforcement and the private sector in the fight against ransomware.
Over the first two months, over 2.500 people have been able to take advantage of No More Ransom by decrypting their devices without having to pay criminals using basic malware decryption tools (CoinVault, WildFire and Shade).
This deprived cybercriminals of an estimated 1.350.000 XNUMX in ransom.
Currently, there are five decryption tools on the official website of the project, and we expect to see very soon more.
In order to broaden the public, the portal has now been adapted to support different languages.