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Shade Ransomware shuts down, releases 750K decryption keys
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Quote:The operators behind the Shade Ransomware (Troldesh) have shut down their operations, released over 750,000 decryption keys, and apologized for the harm they caused their victims.

The Shade Ransomware has been in operation since around 2014. Unlike other ransomware families that specifically avoid encrypting victims in Russia and other CIS countries, Shade targets people in Russia and Ukraine predominantly.

According to Michael Gillespie, the creator of the ransomware identification site ID Ransomware, submission related to the Shade Ransomware has been steady over the years until the end of 2019 when it started to dwindle.


The cause of the decreasing submissions became revealed this weekend when Shade Ransomware operators created a GitHub repository and stated that they stopped distributing the ransomware at the end of 2019.

As part of this statement, the ransomware operators apologize for their actions and provide instructions on how to recover files using the released keys.

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