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Rakhni ransomware affected file
File type: Ransomware encrypted file
Files with kraken suffix can be often encountered on computers affected by the Rakhni type ransomware.
File type category:
Ransomware encrypted file
Date updated: December 19, 2016
File extension kraken is most often known to be ued for files that were encrypted and renamed by Rakhni ransomware distributed via any of the following Trojans:
Note: a different ransomware that uses kraken suffix appeared in December 2016, but this seems to be unrelated to the original Rakhni ransomware. It is know simply as Kraken Ransomware.
You cannot open these files until you decrypt them successfully. There exist a decryptor from Kaspersky called RakhniDecryptor that may be of help.
You first need to decrypt the .kraken file before you can convert the content.
Software apps that recover kraken files:
Microsoft Windows