LeChiffre Ransomware
Posted: January 25, 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.
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: | 10/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 10 |
First Seen: | January 25, 2016 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The LeChiffre Ransomware is a new type of ransomware that has been troubling businesses across the world for some time. Just like other ransomware threats, the LeChiffre Ransomware also works by encrypting the user's files and offering to decrypt them in exchange for a hefty amount of money. However, there are several peculiar things about the LeChiffre Ransomware that make this threat more unique than your typical ransomware. The LeChiffre Ransomware isn't fully automated – the ransomware must be run manually on the victim's computer, and the LeChiffre Ransomware can't be spread automatically via infected machines. In short, the attackers must have physical or remote access to the victim's computer if they want to encrypt the victim's files with the help of the LeChiffre Ransomware.
The LeChiffre Ransomware utilizes a secure RSA 1024 + AES encryption that makes it nearly impossible to decrypt the files that have been encrypted by the LeChiffre Ransomware. As soon as the LeChiffre Ransomware is done with the encryption, it displays a ransom note which tells the victim to get in touch with the attackers via an e-mail message. According to the ransom note, users can send a sample file to be decrypted by the cyber crooks, a method often used by ransomware authors to assure their victims that all their files can be restored if they pay the ransom fee. The ransom fee requested by LeChiffre ransomware is around 1 BTC (~$350) and, according to the ransomware's authors, users who pay the ransom fee will have their files decrypted immediately. Although this may seem like a quick solution to the issue, we advise you not to pay any money to the people who got you to this annoying situation. Instead, you should remove the LeChiffre ransomware with a reputable anti-malware solution, and attempt to restore your files with the help of free tools and utilities that are commonly used to restore files encrypted by ransomware.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:dir\name
File name: nameSize: 530.94 KB (530944 bytes)
MD5: 4523ccfd191dcceeae8e884f82f5c7ad
Detection count: 8
Path: dir
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 27, 2016
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