Over 200,000 computers across the globe were infected by WannaCry ransomware, but now Raj Samani, chief scientist at McAfee, believes he and his team have found a way to recover data from files encrypted by the ransomware.
In an article for SC Magazine UK, Samani, Christian Beek and Charles McFarland detail an experimental recovery method known as ‘file carving’. The advice is “provided as is”, warn the researchers, who “accept no responsibility if things don’t go as expected”.
But if your files are encrypted and you don’t have a backup, you don’t have much to lose by giving it a go.