GibonDecrypter

Gibon is a ransomware agent that recently surfaced to infect unprotected systems. It encrypts personal documents, photos and other types of files, in order to hold them for ransom.

It currently spreads through malspam as an email attachment. This file contains certain kinds of macros that are programmed to download and install the Gibon ransomware.

If you have been hit by this threat, then your locked files receive the .gibon extension. For every encrypted file, the agent creates a ransomware note called READ_ME_NOW.txt, which shows instructions with the email address to send money to, in order to get your data back.

Instead of actually paying the ransomware, you can use GibonDecrypter, a tool specially designed to unlock the files for free. It doesn't require installation or configuration.

Once you reach the main window, you can use the built-in file explorer to create a list of folders, in order to scan them for files locked by Gibon. Before doing so, it's necessary to associate the encrypted file (at least 2GB) with its original counterpart.

After the keystream is loaded, Gibon proceeds with the file decryption and shows the total number of decrypted files when the task is over. You can also ask it to automatically delete the encrypted files if you don't want to do this yourself.

Although this program is designed to decrypt files that were locked with the Gibon ransomware, it cannot provide real-time protection, which means that you have to equip your PC with a powerful antivirus solution that also has antiransomware features. Taking into account its straightforward usage, GibonDecrypter provides a ransomware decryption solution for all types of users, even the ones who aren't tech-savvy.