Custom-Built Ransomware Threats Offered by FAKBEN Team for 10 Percent Fee

When it comes to malware threats, ransomware has taken the lead as being the most destructive this year. The national news outlets and social media is a-buzz about ransomware, and for good reason due to it taking precedence as the most popular and talked-about type of computer malware or virus around for 2015.

The propagation of ransomware is thriving to new heights as a service is offered on the Dark Net through the special .onion domain to assemble customized ransomware strains based on the CryptoLocker family of threats. The folks behind the operation, dubbed the FAKBEN team, are offering registered users the opportunity to choose their desired ransomware and target computer users all for a ten percent fee that they collect as part of the initial ransom that you exploit.

Fundamentally, you can think of the FAKBEN team's service, which is advertised through the Dark Net .onion domain, gives anyone with the proper know-how the ability to conjure up a ransomware threat that acts much like CryptoLocker and similar malware. The fee that you choose will be collected by victimized computer users only to issue a ten percent cut of the fee to the FAKBEN team, who look to be granted a pay day from your dubious works.

The FAKBEN team says on their website: "We will keep on working in the settings of the cryptolocker, improving methods for undetection to AV. We will give all the support that costumers need through Jabber service." The go on to explain the following: "Is not our interest who will be infected or which kind of methods you will do, is important for you to use brain and intelligence in order to spread it.”

Example of FAKBEN Customized CryptoLocker Ransomware threat notification website

From the sound of things, FAKBEN is meaning remain under the cover of the Dark Net, an underground computer network that has restricted access and used primarily for peer-to-peer file sharing, to spread their customized ransomware creations.

As we see the emergence of ransomware to overtake computer's and utterly destroy files and applications on them through encryption, computer users will have no choice but to pay up the ransom fees to decrypt files and restore their system back to normal operation. Ransomware is not only nearly impossible to remove from an infected computer, but more and more computer users are resorting to paying the ransom for upwards of hundreds of dollars just to get through the potentially devastating circumstance.

With services like those offered by the FAKBEN team popping up; cybercrooks will have easy access to jumpstart their malware-wielding business where customized CyptoLocker-like ransomware is their weapon of choice.