Cube Ransomware

The Cube Ransomware is a file-locking Trojan that can hold your media, such as documents, captive by encrypting it. Threats of this category may include other symptoms, such as the removal of your backups, blocking security programs or changing the wallpaper. Let your anti-malware products protect your PC by uninstalling the Cube Ransomware or blocking installation, and always keep backups for recovering efficiently.

The Six-Sided Shape of Wishing You Had a Backup

The Cube Ransomware is a new file-locker Trojan whose campaign is impacting victims in Canada, although its payload may not be geo-targeting any nation, in particular. Malware researchers aren't determining many features that would make the Cube Ransomware stand out from families of Ransomware-as-a-Service threats like the Scarab Ransomware's for-hire business, but the Cube Ransomware isn't an apparent relative. Instead, the formatting most closely matches that of the Major Ransomware or the Bmps Ransomware, which is a recent threat examined in-depth by a Russian AV company.

While the Cube Ransomware encrypts files for locking them, it uses an unknown algorithm for this purpose, which could be AES, XOR, RSA or others. The name changes that it adds on afterward are part of its similarity to the Major Ransomware, and consist of a numerical code, the threat actor's e-mail, and the 'cube' extension. Word documents, Notepad texts, PDFs, JPGs, GIFs, ZIPs, RARs, MP3s, and other media are frequent targets for such attacks.

The Cube Ransomware creates text messages for selling its decryption help to restore your files into working condition. While it asks for Bitcoins, it gives no specific price or wallet address and lets victims contact the e-mail for more information. This strategy for negotiating could keep victims from comparing the ransoms or determining whether or not getting any services back is likely.

Don't Roll the Rigged Dice with the Cube Ransomware

File-liking Trojans may or may not include extra features that destroy the user's backups, prevent them from accessing security solutions or websites or compromise the rest of a local network's systems. Since malware experts have yet to examine all of the Cube Ransomware's payload, victims should play safe and disable all network connections in infected devices. Recovery through backups, the Shadow Volume Copies, free decryption software, or other means can proceed after disinfection.

Whether or not it's a variant of Major Ransomware, the Cube Ransomware is a Windows program and only endangers users in that environment. Examples of infection strategies that malware experts rate as being prolific for file-locker Trojans include e-mail attachments, brute-force attacks against logins, and, to a smaller degree, torrents and exploit kits. An appropriate anti-malware product should compensate for most of these vulnerabilities and delete the Cube Ransomware automatically.

With a mystery for its price, the Cube Ransomware is one Trojan that wants to keep its cards close to its chest. Secrecy, usually, plays into the hands of criminals, and those who are hoping that they'll get a fair shake out of a Trojan's administrator tend to be unlucky.