Intel and the security firm Kaspersky Lab have released tools for freeing files that are being held to ransom by a nasty piece of malware called Wildfire.
Wildfire is a variant of ransomware—the rapidly growing phenomenon where attackers trick people into clicking things they shouldn’t, then encrypt files or whole drives on their computers and demand payment for decrypting them.
This particular variant has been targeting victims in the Netherlands and Belgium, with spam emails written in perfect Dutch, and a dummy transport company as the sender that uses a Dutch web address.
