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Linked – No More Ransom — 15 New Ransomware Decryption Tools Available for Free

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

This is a site that is probably worth keeping a bookmark to, just in case. Plus the educational stuff is really good too!

Started as a joint initiative by Europol, the Dutch National Police, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab, No More Ransom is an anti-ransomware cross-industry initiative to help ransomware victims recover their data without having to pay ransom to cyber criminals.
The online website not just educates computer users to protect themselves from ransomware, but also provides a collection of free decryption tools.

http://thehackernews.com/2017/04/decrypt-ransomware-files-tool.html

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