Blue Eagle Ransomware

The Blue Eagle Ransomware is a Trojan that extorts money from its victims by locking their files using encryption. Since this threat's encoding routine may encode the same data multiple times, rendering it irrecoverable, users should keep backups suitable for restoring any valuable media, when possible. Always remove the Blue Eagle Ransomware with help from appropriate anti-malware programs once you see symptoms, such as its pop-up ransom notes.

Soaring Free with Your Files in Its Talons

Unidentified threat actors are working on a new Trojan that takes harmful encryption to rarely-seen extremes: the in-progress the Blue Eagle Ransomware threatens more than just media, but also the overall operating system. The Blue Eagle Ransomware is a Windows-based Trojan that's not yet in a state appropriate for release in the wild, due to its placeholder payment-collecting content. However, its data-enciphering attacks are mostly function and may damage files or software arbitrarily and permanently.

The Blue Eagle Ransomware does include standard media formats in its list of content to block while it searches the PC for other suitable files, such as JPG pictures. However, it also may cover required program files, such as executables, and extend its sweep to the Windows directory. Malware experts are detecting no pop-ups or other symptoms occurring during this enciphering process, although the Blue Eagle Ransomware does append its extension ('.SaherBlueEagleRansomware') to their names, afterward. Possibly due to a bug, the Blue Eagle Ransomware also may employ the cascade encryption: enciphering every individual file more than once, which can make the affected content impossible to decode.

The Trojan's payload also includes a feature most likely meant to replace the user's desktop image with an image of its logo, in addition to an HTA pop-up that issues ransom demands of 1.25 Bitcoins (just over seven thousand USD) for getting the decryption code.

Shooting Down a Sky-High Extortionist's Money Maker

Unlike the standard file-locking methods that its competing Trojans abuse (which, ordinarily, uses an AES cipher to lock a file once, and an RSA cipher to secure the AES one), the Blue Eagle Ransomware uses attacks that can damage data beyond all hope of recovery. The Blue Eagle Ransomware also may not limit its attacks to user-based media, although malware experts have yet to report cases of it 'wiping' a drive or damaging a boot-up sequence successfully. The potential circulation of the Blue Eagle Ransomware and threats like it make it crucial for all PC owners to practice safe backup strategies that let them recover reliably and without paying a ransom that may accomplish nothing.

High-value ransoms like those that the Blue Eagle Ransomware collects often are characteristic of Trojan campaigns attacking business networks through spam e-mails or brute-force methods. Alternative distribution strategies could circulate this Trojan through free downloads, particularly ones associated with pirated content, or use browser exploits to install it automatically. Reputable, dedicated anti-malware products include features for identifying these vulnerabilities and should remove the Blue Eagle Ransomware as soon as they detect it.

The Blue Eagle Ransomware has good chances of being more harmful to the files of any compromised PC than the average Trojan of its type. While it may or may not leave its partial state of development, malware experts' conclusion of its current functionality shows that even half-made Trojans have more potential for harm than one might hope.