Remove KANGAROO virus: how to decrypt KANGAROO encrypted files

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Remove KANGAROO virus how to decrypt KANGAROO
encrypted files

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  garoo-ransomware/

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• The authors of the once widespread KANGAROO
  ransomware have coined a new extortion tool that
  goes by another popular Russian name Mischa.
  Whereas these two undoubtedly represent the same
  family and share some behavioral patterns, the
  latter is drastically different from its
  forerunner. The Mischa ransomware is a more
  classic sample, because it encrypts the end
  users personal files rather than corrupting the
  Master File Table. This somewhat milder impact,
  which still allows the infected person to
  actually boot into Windows, doesnt make the
  newcomer Trojan any less hazardous, though. It
  uses a cryptographic algorithm thats strong
  enough to prevent data recovery through
  brute-forcing, which basically means that the
  victim runs the risk of losing all important
  files unless they pay up.

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• The authors of KANGAROO, a new data-encoding
  trojan sample, appear to have fairly modest
  mercantile appetites as they extort an unusually
  low ransom of 0.1 Bitcoins, which converts to
  about 40 USD. This feature, though, doesnt make
  such an attack incident any less abominable than
  the rest of the crypto malware assaults out
  there. The online criminals trump card in
  defrauding their victims of some savings is a
  rather strong cryptosystem leveraged in the
  course of the compromise.

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• The offending program makes use of a blend of
  AES-256 and RSA-2048 to turn ones personal data
  into an array of inaccessible entities. It
  targets both the files stored locally and those
  residing on mapped network shares as well as
  external media thats currently inserted into the
  infected computer running Windows or Linux. The
  range of file formats at risk isnt very
  plentiful, covering objects with about 40
  different extensions, as opposed to some
  ransomware variants that lock hundreds of types
  of data.

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• Harmful is a barely accurate attribute to
  characterize the effect impaired by ransom
  trojans, because the damage tends to get
  tremendous. The only user that has nothing to
  worry about in the face of these attacks is one
  who doesnt keep any information on their
  computer, which is fiction rather than a
  plausible scenario. Ransomware blocks out ones
  access to data deposited on local drive volumes
  as well as mapped network shares. The latest
  edition of the notorious KANGAROO infection does
  exactly that, appending files with the .LOL!
  extension and creating a document with recovery
  tips named how to get data.txt inside every
  path with encrypted entities. As a result, the
  victim can no longer open files saved in more
  than 130 different formats.

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• Remove KANGAROO virus how to decrypt KANGAROO
  encrypted files

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• This approach relies on the native Windows backup
  of files on the computer, which is conducted at
  each restore point. There is an important
  condition to this method it works if the System
  Restore feature was toggled on before the
  contamination. Also, if changes were made to a
  file after the most recent restore point, they
  wont be reflected in the recovered file version.
• Use Previous Versions feature

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• The Properties dialog for random files has a tab
  called Previous Versions. Thats where the backed
  up versions are displayed and can be recovered
  from. So right-click on a file, go to Properties,
  hit the above-mentioned tab and select the Copy
  or Restore option, depending on the location you
  would like it recovered to.

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• Apply ShadowExplorer
• The above process can be automated with a tool
  called ShadowExplorer. It basically does the same
  thing (retrieving Shadow Volume Copies), but in a
  more convenient way. So download and install the
  application, run it and browse to files and
  folders whose previous versions you wish to be
  restored. To get the job done, right-click on any
  of the entries and select the Export feature.
• Backups

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• Out of all the options that arent
  ransom-related, this one is the most optimal. In
  the event you had been backing up your
  information to an external server before the
  ransomware hit your PC, restoring the files
  encrypted by KANGAROO is as simple as logging
  into the respective interface, selecting the
  right files and initiating the restore
  transaction proper. Before you do so, however, be
  sure to completely remove the ransomware from
  your computer.

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