A Note from the Bitdefender Labs Team on Ransomware and Decryptors

The news this week about our release of a decryptor for Darkside in January 2021 has sparked a conversation about whether researchers (including those who work for cybersecurity companies) should communicate the release of ransomware decryptors to the public. In the security industry, debate helps us all improve our defense, and we encourage and welcome this dialog.   As one of the industry’s largest and most active research teams involved in anti-ransomware activity (both from a decryptor/technology perspective […]