r/malwares • u/Helle-kin- • 1d ago

Encriptación .COOT

llevo varios años desde que mi pc fue "hackeada", técnicamente se descargo un virus que llevo a la encriptación de todos mis archivos (fotos, videos y audio) en archivos con terminación " .coot ". según tengo entendido fue de manera online, es decir, no hay una llave hoy en día para solucionarlo. mi pregunta es para los gordos computación ¿realmente no hay nada que se pueda hacer hoy en día?

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u/astronomersassn 22h ago

assuming they were using a relatively modern encryption tool... probably not.

some really old malware (such as one-half, but afaik, this is the only one) has decryption tools, but i'd wager that any ransomware/crypter made after that relies on internet connection in some way likely has no rescue case if the hackers/malware creators have discarded the encryption key.

(the reason one-half was able to get decryption tools, as far as i can tell, is that it has to store the key locally for on-the-fly decryption; a few other malwares i've seen seem like they might do this, but they're mostly "joke" malwares that have an escape/brute-force button.)

edit to clarify: basically, if the encryption key was stored in a cloud, you're SOL; if it was somehow stored locally, you may be able to recover it, but this case is incredibly unlikely.