The developer of HildaCrypt has released the master decryption keys that would allow potential victims of the ransomware to recover their data for free.
On October 4, a security researcher who goes by the name “GrujaRS” posted about the discovery of a new variant of STOP, a well–known ransomware family.
The developer of the threat saw GrujaRS’s post and contacted the researcher to inform them that their analysis was incorrect. They clarified that the ransomware was not a STOP variant but instead a sample of a new ransomware family called “HildaCrypt.” As part of this clarification, the developer decided to hand over the threat’s master decryption keys.