Threat actors behind the Shade ransomware have released 750,000 encryption keys on GitHub. The team behind the malware apologized to victims in a post on the code repository earlier this week. Shade, a ransomware that encrypts files and adds various extensions to them, was first discovered in late 2014 by Kaspersky. Researchers said that the top five countries affected by the malware were the United States, Japan, India, Thailand and Canada. Researchers also noted how consistent Shade s payload remained during the five years the ransomware was active.
Source: https://threatpost.com/shade-threat-actors-call-it-quits-release-750k-encryption-keys/155335/