I HIT BY MALWARE AND ALL MY FILES , PICTURES, MP 4 VIDEOS, VIDEO IMAGES CHANGED THE FILE FORMATS FROM JPEGS & MP4 FORMATS TO ALKA FORMAT.
PLEASE HELP HOW CAN I DECRYPT THIS MALWARE TO GET MY FILES BACK TO NORMAL
I got hit by malware and all my files changed to .alka. What to do?
warren, | Alka ransomware |
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You have encountered a ransomware threat that is focusing on locking files, so the ransom can be demanded. Paying is not the solution because developers have released a lot of new versions and decryption keys are, in most cases, not stored anymore. Especially, when it comes to the DJVU virus family that this threat belongs to.
Alka is not decryptable, tools can only work when offline IDs get used, but these are no longer in use since August 2019. You should check these instructions to learn more about the particular virus and find options for file recovery.
However, anything that happens on the machine in regard to data recovery, should be after full malware removal. For this process, you need anti-malware tools and security applications that can find traces of the ransomware and ensure that threat is terminated fully.
If not, your data can be at risk of getting permanently damaged. The article above has some data recovery options too, but the best tip from us would be using data backups from external devices, not all third-party apps can work the same.
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2spyware team