How to Recover Files Infected By Ransomware Attack?

Through this article, I’ll show you How to recover files infected by Ransomware Attack
We are living in a volatile internet world where each and every data that we store in our systems is not safe. Every day, various hacking groups try to get a hold of our data in various forms. And post-hacking, they try to use this data for their personal or professional use.

What is Ransomware?

Ransomware is basically a form of hacking where hackers hack your computer’s data and encrypt it with their virus. And to decrypt your data, they ask for a ransom which means a charge. On 12th May 2017, the world saw one of the biggest attacks led by a group named “Wannacry”.

Their virus infected around 200,000 machines in the first few hours of the attack. Even big organizations like NHS and Renault were fallen prey to this Ransomware virus attack. Wannacry leveraged one of the loopholes in Windows Operating System which was earlier discovered by the NSA.

These types of virus attacks have been growing day by day and this recent one showed us how a well-planned attack can create havoc in our daily life.

The highest affected countries of this cyber-attack were America, Britain, Russia and China. There are several other countries that have also faced its mammoth effect like India, Australia, Canada and so on. The total count is more than 150 plus countries.

As soon, as a user gets affected by this Ransomware, the virus starts encrypting their data. And soon as it encrypts users’ whole data, it shows a screen stating
“All your data have been encrypted or locked. To decrypt your data kindly pay us $500.”

What happened to my computer?

All your crucial files have been encrypted.
Most of your images, documents, videos and other crucial files will be inaccessible as they have been encrypted. You might look for an option to decrypt those files. But trust us; it would be a waste of time… since nobody can decrypt your data without our decryption service.

Can I recover my data?

Yes, you can. You can decrypt and recover all your data with our decryption service. But you don’t have much time in hand. To decrypt the data you need to pay.
You have 05 days in hand to make the payment or else the price of decryption will be doubled. And by the way, if you don’t pay in next 07 days, you won’t be able to decrypt your files forever.
To evaluate, you can decrypt some of your data for free.

So this is the kind of dialogue box, which opens in front of you.

So now let’s check out some of the

Important Precautions We Must Take After Data Encryption

This virus targets computers & laptops and encrypts the data. And if your computer is affected by this virus, I would suggest you keep in mind all the below-mentioned points.

• Disconnect your system from the network and the Internet.
• Try not to run any Antivirus or Antimalware in your infected system.
• Never shut down your computer with the help of normal procedure like: clicking on start and then shut down. Better, go for “Hard Shut Down” that is shutting it down from the main power source.
• And the last tip would be to not use the infected hard drive in any other system or computer.

So now the question is

How To Recover Files Infected By Ransomware Attack?

Good news for those who are looking to recover files infected by Ransomware attack. We at SysInfoTools have cracked this unknown virus with the help of our R&D department.

By last week, we received a ton of cases asking to recover files infected by Ransomware attack.

So finally our R&D department came up with an advanced software application which might help you to recover files infected by Ransomware Attack.

Tool Name: SysInfoTools Windows Data Recovery Tool
Version: 1.0

This Windows Data Recovery tool will help you in various cases to recover your files which have been infected by this Wannacry Ransomware attack.

Note: There are certain points which you need to keep in mind before any kind of recovery

• Try to get a new system which is not infected and not connected to the internet.
• Download and install out SysInfoTools Windows Data Recovery Tool in the new system.
• As soon as the tool is installed in your system, shut down your machine.
• Connect the infected drive to this system where the software is already installed.
• Now start the system.

Now Follow These Underlined Steps To Recover Ransomware Infected Files

1. Launch SysInfoTools Windows Data Recovery Tool and select the drive that you want to recover or select the disk where your infected files are stored.
   
2. Now select the recovery mode. There are three types of recovery mode for different types of corruption
   Standard
   Advanced
   DeepNote: I would suggest you to first try out Standard recovery mode. If that doesn’t work out then go for advanced one and even both standard and advanced doesn’t work as per your need, then you may check out Deep recovery mode
3. Within a minute, the scanning process will be over. Now click on “OK”
   
4. Now check out the scanned folders and files. Expand those folders by clicking on them. Check their properties and other files, if they have been recovered correctly or not before saving them. Now, select the files and folders that you want to save and click “OK”
5. Now browse and select the location in your system where you want to save your recovered data
   
6. Within a couple of minutes, recovery process would be completed. As soon as it is done, click “OK”So this is how you can recover files infected by Ransomware attack.

Author’s Final Words

The digital world is full of vulnerability and hackers would always try to hack or gain control of your data. To protect this, we always need to take some precautions if we never want the ball to go in hacker’s court.

Being a technical consultant, I always suggest everyone to keep a regular backup of your data just to stare away from these problems.

There is one thing, you should always keep in mind and that is no software or tool is solely sufficient to decrypt your data as it is a very lengthy and a complex process. So a 100 percent recovery is never possible during such virus attacks. So would always suggest you to try out the demo version first to evaluate the tool.

By the way, if you are facing data corruption then it is possible. As this Windows Data Recovery tool is very much capable of recovering your maximum possible corrupt data from your system.

Hope you liked this article and the details I’ve mentioned above.