CVLocker Ransomware

Posted: May 24, 2017

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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% 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:	10/10
Infected PCs:	27

First Seen:	May 24, 2017
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The CVLocker Ransomware is a Trojan that locks your screen by displaying encryption warnings. While this threat claims to have a timer component configured to delete your files once it reaches zero, malware experts can confirm neither this feature nor any encryption attacks that could damage your local content. However, you should use appropriate security steps and software for removing the CVLocker Ransomware, which impedes your access to other programs and the Windows UI.

A Hit from a Bad Digital Bong

What a Trojan says to those it's attacking and what it does may be worlds apart, and, often, the facade of an intimidating payload is something that threat authors implement before making the corresponding functions. As proof of this, malware analysts are seeing samples of a new screen-locking threat that enjoy updates for causing other damages, in the future. However, for now, the CVLocker Ransomware is incapable of following through on its bluffs of encoding and deleting your files.

The CVLocker Ransomware does display one of the most prominent symptoms of actual file-encrypting threats: a pop-up with advanced HTML content claiming that your files are under an encryption attack. Further accusations themed after Major League Gaming, Bonzi Buddy software, and drug use imply that this threat's author created it as a recreational Trojan not meant for attacking high-value systems like corporate servers primarily. Like many Trojans taking inspiration from the original Jigsaw Ransomware attacks, the CVLocker Ransomware also displays a countdown and states that its hitting zero will result in the permanent removal of your files.

Additional formatting errors, particularly with the e-mail contact line, cause malware experts to rate the CVLocker Ransomware as likely being under development and incomplete. Despite being half-built and with limited attacks, the CVLocker Ransomware can prevent the user from accessing the desktop or other programs.

Taking Your Monitor Back from Fake File-Ransomers

As of current analyses, the CVLocker Ransomware is a threat to compromised systems for its ability to lock you out of using other applications primarily. Rebooting your PC through Safe Mode, which is available on most operating systems, can handicap any threats that launch themselves automatically, and prevent the CVLocker Ransomware's pop-up from loading. If the CVLocker Ransomware does see updates to its so-called encryption capabilities, malware analysts would advise backing up your files to isolate them from these file-encrypting attacks.

Perhaps due to how limited its payload is, the CVLocker Ransomware is avoiding many brands of anti-malware threat detection successfully. Update the databases of all security suites and scanners, when applicable, to raise their chances of finding new threats before the infection of your PC can happen. These programs remain the best, passive means of identifying and deleting the CVLocker Ransomware when it comes through disguised installation exploits, such as bundling itself with files on torrent networks.

The CVLocker Ransomware may have profit or mischief as its raison d'etre, but the motivation means little to victims who are struggling to regain control over their computers. A measure of restraint over what files you download and run remains an excellent way to prevent screen-locking threats like this one from gaining access to what isn't theirs.

CVLocker Ransomware

Threat Metric

A Hit from a Bad Digital Bong

Taking Your Monitor Back from Fake File-Ransomers

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