FuckSociety Ransomware

Posted: November 8, 2016

Threat Metric

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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

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Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	84

First Seen:	November 8, 2016
Last Seen:	November 4, 2021
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The FuckSociety Ransomware is a new variant of the Fs0ci3ty Ransomware that continues with that Trojan's attacks of encrypting content as a way of extorting money from the PC user. Since the Trojan may cause additional damage to your PC, over time, a prompt counter-response to a confirmed infection is highly recommended by malware experts. Deleting the FuckSociety Ransomware always should use anti-malware programs able to isolate it safely, regardless of whether or not you choose to save your modified files.

A Trojan with an Accurately Explanatory Title

Television media is a persistent theme in some strains of threatening software, including many of the latest types of file-encryption Trojans. Nowhere is this social engineering strategy clearer than with the FuckSociety Ransomware and Trojans like it, such as the Fs0ci3ty Ransomware and the Fsociety Ransomware, all of which reference the hacking drama series Mr. Robot. While malware researchers have found no evidence of shared code between these malware products, they all display very similar payloads.

The FuckSociety Ransomware is the most recent of the above examples. The first phase of the payload scans for files such as the Microsoft Office content, images or audio, and runs them through an encryption cipher. While the FuckSociety Ransomware identifies its encryption method as being the RSA-4096, malware experts estimate that the claim is false due to the complexity, redundancy, and risks accompanying using such a secure algorithm currently. Regardless of how many bits the algorithm uses, the Trojan has blocked all encoded content until you can decrypt it.

The Trojan follows its attack by creating HTML decryption instructions, through which it asks for Bitcoin ransom payments. The use of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency helps guarantee anonymity on the part of the threat actor and prevents charge rollbacks that could help a victim recover their money from occurring, in the likely event that the decryption solution never is given.

Keeping a Cyber-Society Free of Threats like the FuckSociety Ransomware

Even a new Trojan like the FuckSociety Ransomware almost always uses pre-established infection exploits, including (in rough order of likelihood) spam e-mails, website-hosted exploit kits, and brute force attacks against unsafely password-protected accounts. PC users protecting their systems with automated anti-malware tools can block drive-by-download attempts or identify Trojan droppers for the FuckSociety Ransomware, based on heuristic metrics. Preventing your Web browser from running scripts by default also reduces many of the potential abuses that threat actors may use for distributing threats.

The FuckSociety Ransomware bears a strong resemblance to some versions of TeslaCrypt, a family of threats that does not have a public decryption application. Victims can make decrypting any data unnecessary by saving backups on removable drives or cloud-based servers. For appropriately prepared PC owners, removing the FuckSociety Ransomware and restoring from a backup can provide a full recovery while ignoring any extortion demands.

The popularity of television series may come and go with each season. However, for threats like the FuckSociety Ransomware, these changes mean nothing more than needing to re-brand their threatening pop-ups, a process that doesn't change the dangers found in the rest of their payloads.

FuckSociety Ransomware

Threat Metric

A Trojan with an Accurately Explanatory Title

Keeping a Cyber-Society Free of Threats like the FuckSociety Ransomware

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