V8Locker Ransomware
Posted: December 19, 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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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: | 611 |
First Seen: | December 20, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | June 14, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The V8Locker Ransomware is a Trojan that encrypts your work-related media like documents and accounting software databases. This threat may run its payload multiple times to hinder any recovery efforts. Malware experts recommend using backups to limit the harm that an infection can cause while also using anti-malware tools to delete the V8Locker Ransomware before restoring any of your files.
The Digital Dart Aimed at Your Fiscal Bookkeeping
Appearances aren't always the best way to form an opinion of a Trojan, with threat actors using social engineering tactics to confuse their identities and intentions increasingly. The V8Locker Ransomware is a relatively mild example, as a file-encryption Trojan that uses filename-modifying format seen in other families of threats without being related to them directly. Its attacks are just as able to block your files, including some unusual choices specific to a workplace environment.
The V8Locker Ransomware scans for files such as documents, spreadsheets, and databases, including content related to the Sage 300 accounting software. It can include drives accessible over networks in this scan, letting it compromise the contents of multiple systems and servers simultaneously. Once it finds appropriate targets, the V8Locker Ransomware encrypts them with an AES-derived algorithm, stopping them from being readable.
The V8Locker Ransomware's second phase includes a ransom message delivered via Notepad text, as well as a 'backup' communication line in the form of the e-mail address it appends to the filenames of any enciphered data. However, malware researchers recommend ignoring all recovery methods advocated by this threat. Paying ransoms to anonymous people for their decryption help, while not always a failure, often results in omission due to a lack of sincerity on the part of the threat actor or their providing malfunctioning decryption tools.
Washing out the Flavor of the V8Locker Ransomware
Malware analysts classify the V8Locker Ransomware as a persistent threat that you should assume is active unless you take appropriate steps to disable it currently. The V8Locker Ransomware may relaunch its data-enciphering payload and encrypt additional content over staggered periods of time or after your PC restarts. While its distribution exploits are under investigation, its threat actors appear to be targeting installations of the Trojan against small and mid-sized business servers. Such attacks can occur through the hacking of RDP accounts or by bundling the V8Locker Ransomware's installer into an e-mail attachment.
The V8Locker Ransomware's lack of relationship to prior threats becomes important primarily for the lack of public decryption software compatible with it. However, malware analysts do see some versions of the V8Locker Ransomware failing to delete the Shadow Copy data that Windows stores automatically. This weakness could even allow victims without external backups to restore their content and ignore the decryption process.
Removing the V8Locker Ransomware completely with appropriate anti-malware software is the most reliable means of halting any possibility of further file damage. The V8Locker Ransomware's potential for striking twice (or more than that) makes it difficult to overlook that all victims should prioritize disinfecting their computers over undoing the immediate effects of an infection.
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