Victims infected with this ransomware variant are advised to scan their computers with robust and up-to-date antivirus software immediately. Therefore, even if you pay, the attackers can continue to blackmail you and ask for more money or log into your accounts and cause further damage.
These viruses are capable of allowing criminals to run commands on your computer remotely to steal private details such as browser-saved account passwords as well as login credentials for various applications (Steam, Telegram and others), Skype chat history, cryptocurrency wallets and more. Criminals behind file-encrypting malware earn millions annually already, which is another factor that lures other people to become affiliates in this fraudulent business.Īnother reason why you shouldn’t pay these people is because the ransomware you were infected with has a tendency to drop additional information-stealing Trojans such as AZORULT or VIDAR on infected system. Another reason why it is wrongful to do so is because money is the fuel behind these illegal operations as it allows the attackers to employ more malware developers or distributors and therefore infect even more victims worldwide with more sophisticated threats. First of all, paying a ransom does not guarantee successful file decryption. Geek’s Advice experts suggest following FBI recommendations about paying up to cybercriminals – DO NOT PAY THE RANSOM. The reason why such Internet criminals want to receive the ransom in this way is because it helps them to stay anonymous and thus law enforcement agencies have no power to track the parties between such transactions. The crooks usually provide several links to websites that can be used to purchase virtual currency.
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The note also says that the victim can attach one encrypted file that doesn’t contain no valuable information to test the decryption – the attackers promise to send a decrypted test file in return.Īfter writing an email to the criminals, the victim gets instructions to purchase cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin worth the ransom amount and how to transfer it to the attackers. If delayed any longer, the ransom price would be $980 instead. If the victim does it, the criminals are willing to set the price to $490. The note instructs the victim to contact the criminals via provided email addresses: note suggests that the victim should rush to contact the criminals within 72 hours to get a 50% discount on the decryption service price.
Although not mentioned in the note, the virus uses Salsa20 + RSA-2048 bit encryption type.
It also explains that all data including pictures, videos, databases, documents and other file formats have been encrypted with the strongest encryption algorithm and unique key. The ransom note dropped by COOL ransomware suggests that the victim can still return all files. The note suggests that the only way to get COOL file decryption tool is to pay a large ransom to cybercriminals. To inform the computer owner about the ransomware operators’ intentions, the virus drops _readme.txt note in all affected folders. To illustrate, a file originally named 1.jpg becomes 1.jpg.cool after being infected. This virus aims to encrypt all files on the target computer and while doing it also appends.
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