8800 Ransomware

The 8800 Ransomware is a file-locking Trojan that comes from the Crysis Ransomware family (also labeled as Dharma Ransomware). It represents an immediate danger to the user's media files since it can block them by encrypting them and delete some formats of backups. More secure backup protocols can protect your work from its attacks.

The Steady Beat of Ransomware-as-a-Service Output

As regular as a heartbeat, Ransomware-as-a-Services are the favorites of less programming-minded threat actors due to how easily used they are as well as the built-in, universally helpful features they include. For the victims, however, a new Trojan from a RaaS like Crysis Ransomware, the 8800 Ransomware, equates to another source of attacks against their files, with, often, costly results. Like recent and older ancestors ranging from the SySS Ransomware and the Kr Ransomware to the 'suppfirecrypt@qq.com' Ransomware and the KARLS Ransomware, the 8800 Ransomware uses secure encryption as a weapon for harming data, albeit potentially temporarily.

While the 8800 Ransomware features an unusual name and corresponding extension tag, in most respects, it aligns with these old examples of its family. The 8800 Ransomware conducts attacks against media for locking it, takes measures against any restoration options, and leaves behind ransoming demands, as follows:

• The 8800 Ransomware can keep any media file, such as Word documents, pictures, or music, from opening. Its method of doing so uses AES-based encryption that is secure against any casual decryption from another party, such as a security researcher.
• The 8800 Ransomware changes the names of the files that it locks by inserting new text at the end, which it formats as extensions. Besides its name, it also references an e-mail specific to the campaign and the ransoming process (see below).
• The 8800 Ransomware also creates a pop-up window and drops a TXT file that provides directions on paying ransoms for the unlocking help of the threat actor.
• Least visibly but, perhaps, most vitally, the 8800 Ransomware also destroys the ShadowVolume Copies with a hidden CMD command.

While the goal of infections is extracting money from users, doing so doesn't always correspond with the victims getting their files back to normal. Criminals, even with RaaS families, sometimes will collect their payments and cut off further all communications or assistance.

Messing with the Rhythm of RaaS

Non-locally-saved backups are a convenient means of cutting the legs off of the 8800 Ransomware's planned leverage against any victims. Windows users should consider saving their media to removable storage like USBs, cloud services, and password-protected devices. While data recovery with advanced software is, sometimes, a possibility, statistically, the odds always are against decrypting or recovering the files in a file-locker Trojan attack.

Because of these difficulties, malware researchers always recommend implementing multiple means of avoiding infections at all. Disabling macros and updating document-reading software will compensate for vulnerabilities in e-mail phishing attacks, such as attached documents that drop Trojans like the 8800 Ransomware. Admins also should be careful about choosing passwords and allowing RDP, both of which can assist a hacking attempt inadvertently. Illicit torrents and similar downloads also are possible infection vectors, although more often with the STOP Ransomware family than the 8800 Ransomware's Crysis Ransomware one.

Whether or not there's any meaning behind the numbers in the 8800 Ransomware's name, the point behind its existence is transparent entirely. When paying for access to your digital possessions can be a hundred or thousand dollar expense, any businesses should take the cheaper road of protecting their work beforehand.