'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware
Posted: January 19, 2018
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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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.
Ranking: | 19,217 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 45 |
First Seen: | July 16, 2023 |
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Last Seen: | July 19, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The 'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware is a file locker, which might be found in corrupted e-mail messages, which contain misleading messages, and a harmful file attached. Often, the file attachment might look like a harmless archive or document, but its execution might lead to the infection with the 'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware or other threat. When this particular ransomware is executed on a computer, the 'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware will use a background process to scan the local hard drive and look for specific file formats that it has been programmed to encrypt silently. The 'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware's targets are quite diverse – documents, images, other media, spreadsheets, archives, backups, databases, etc.
Whenever the threat encrypts a file successfully, it will append the ‘.[insane@airmail.cc].insane' extension to its name. In addition to this, it will drop a text-file, 'How_decrypt_files.txt,' which the victims must open to find out what they need to do to recover their files. The authors of the 'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware are unlikely to offer a free solution, and chances are that their victims will be asked to pay hundreds if not thousands of dollars in exchange for specialized decryption software. You should not agree to pay money to the anonymous hackers behind this project because it is likely that they will end up tricking people out of their money.
Some anti-virus product vendors have marked the 'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware as a member of the BTCWare Ransomware family, but this is not yet confirmed. The advice to victims of the 'Insane@airmail.cc' Ransomware is to disregard the demands of the attacker and, instead, proceed to remove this threatening software with the help of a trustworthy anti-malware scanner. Once this step is complete, they should look for alternative software and techniques, which might help them get some files back.
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