‘Suppteam03@india.com’ Ransomware
Posted: November 21, 2016
Threat Metric
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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: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 75 |
First Seen: | November 21, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | November 2, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware is a Trojan that blocks your files by encrypting them with a cipher. Although it attacks can cause permanent data loss, the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware uses its damages as a scenario for facilitating ransom payments wherein con artists offer to sell their victims a decryption tool. You can diminish the impact of such attacks by keeping remote backups, paying attention to the most frequent infection vectors, and having anti-malware applications for deleting the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware as they detect it.
The Branding Power of Trojans at Work
Even among ill-intended enterprises like threat campaigns, the power of using visual symbols and known brands can be a potent force for creating revenue through cryptocurrency or other methods. With the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware, malware experts see yet another case of a Trojan most likely using the well-known CryptoLocker Trojan's name to make itself seem like a more harmful threat than its attacks can corroborate. Trojans sharing identical components with the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware have been in circulation since at least October, in ongoing campaigns.
Malware experts see the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware as being most likely a variant of the PCLock family, although its ransom messages claim that the Trojan's actual heritage belongs to the notorious CryptoLocker. Installers for the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware may be targeting computer users with payloads that block files such as videos, documents or photos. Unlike most file-encrypting Trojans, the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware has yet to have an extension associated with it, and may not modify the encrypted data's name at all.
By locking your files with an encryption algorithm, the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware creates a potential data hostage crisis, which it capitalizes on with its ransom message. While malware experts only verify the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware's use of image-based pop-up ransoms, similar threats also include additional communications in Notepad-based TXT content. In either case, the instructions are identical, requesting money transferable to con artists through the Bitcoin cryptocurrency in return for a 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware decryption program.
Averting a Trojan's Ominous Countdown
Threat authors are just as alert as anyone to the risks innate to partaking in ransom transactions under threat of force. Many of them choose to give their victims as little time as possible for contemplating the process, as malware experts find with the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware. The Trojan's Web page-based timer supposedly counts down until the threat actors delete your decryption key and make decoding your data impossible. However, decryption services aren't available for every file-encrypting Trojan, and paying may not provide you with the promised service from the people in question.
Malware experts noted some encryption protection flaws in Trojans similar to the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware that could result in an incomplete deletion of local backup data. Advanced recovery tools may be able to recover the Windows's default backups partially or entirely. For an even more definitive means of saving your files, use backups that you store on another machine or server and restore them over the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware's encrypted ones.
On the other hand, having anti-malware protection for removing the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware during its installation process is, by far, the form of data protection least subject to unanticipated errors. For the most part, file-deleting doomsday clocks like the 'Suppteam03@india.com' Ransomware's timers are the sole province of PC owners bringing the problem upon themselves.
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