garryweber@protonmail.ch Ransomware
Posted: January 19, 2017
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.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 91 |
First Seen: | January 19, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | March 1, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware is a file-encrypting Trojan that enciphers your files to block them and then profits by offering a data recovery application at a price. Since con artists-provided decryptors may be undependable recovery solutions, most PC users should ignore the ransom demand and seek alternatives, as described in this article. Traditional anti-malware protection can block or remove the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware either before or after it encrypts any of your files.
Brazil Suffers Another Round of File Ransoming
While the bulk of cyber security publications focus on threats either attacking English speakers or broadly compatible with them, some threat campaigns run with aims on other parts of the world. The 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware may be the first 2017-era file-encryptor Trojan to attack Brazil, although 2016 also saw similar incidents, such as the well-disguised Anatel Ransomware. As usual, the intention is to block your files after gaining system access and then delivering ransoming notifications for encouraging payments to undo the attack.
Threat actors are disguising the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware's executable as FileSpy, a utility for viewing in-depth file data. After opening, the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware encrypts local data with an algorithm malware experts still are investigating (with AES being the most likely, but not sole suspect). It appends extensions to the files it encrypts, with the new extension including a unique ID number and the threat actor's e-mail address. Regardless of whether or not the victim changes the filename back to the original one, the encrypted file is unreadable and is only recoverable through a decryption process.
The 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware also includes two additional components for promoting the purchase of its threat actor's decryptor. While malware experts see strong resemblances between the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware's Web page-based ransom note and those of the Globe Ransomware family, no hard affiliation is verifiable currently. Along with placing the local Web page on your desktop, the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware also hijacks the desktop's wallpaper and replaces it with a Portuguese and English message redirecting your attention to the previous file.
Opening Your Files without Paying Bitcoins for Them
Trojans disguising themselves as other programs most often distribute themselves on torrent networks and free software sites with poor hosting standards. However, Trojans of the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware's category also, frequently, target unprotected businesses, government systems, and NGOs, where they may compromise a PC through e-mails or gain installation through a threat actor cracking network passwords. Most of these incidents are wholly preventable by the victims using anti-malware tools for scanning new files, rotating passwords, and paying close attention to the fundamentals of their browser's security features.
At this time, no cyber security organizations are hosting free decryptors for the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware, but victims may consider providing samples on request to assist with the development of such software. Nevertheless, even full sample availability doesn't guarantee that the encryption algorithm is breakable, and malware experts strongly advise backing up your work to prevent threats of this category from causing any irreversible harm. Currently, slightly under half of most major brands of anti-malware protection should catch and remove the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware before it begins encoding your files.
Whether it's a cheap copycat of the Globe Ransomware or an actual update to it, the 'garryweber@protonmail.ch' Ransomware stands to show that even just a few minutes of backing up your files always is worth the trouble.
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