EncryptServer2018 Ransomware
Posted: January 16, 2018
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.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
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: | 2/10 |
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| Infected PCs: | 59 |
| First Seen: | June 6, 2023 |
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| Last Seen: | October 17, 2024 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The EncryptServer2018 Ransomware is a file-encryption Trojan whose primary targets are Web servers. Due to the nature of the attack, it is likely that the EncryptServer2018 Ransomware is not being distributed via fraudulent e-mail messages and, instead, its authors have opted to rely on vulnerable RDP software or outdated and flawed software. Regardless of the infection vector, the result of the EncryptServer2018 Ransomware's attack is always the same – a large number of encrypted files whose names have been encoded, and their file extension has been set to '.2018'.
The EncryptServer2018 Ransomware will then create the file 'Attention!!!!.txt,' which contains a short message meant for the victim. The instructions there state that the user's data has been encrypted securely and the only road to recovery is to seek assistance from the attacker. The authors of the EncryptServer2018 Ransomware uses two methods to get in touch with their victims – either the e-mail tornado_777@aol.com or the BitMessage ID 2cXXgKAo8HzUmijt8KMywZYHm8xDHhxwZg@bitmessage.ch. Surprisingly, the author has not specified how much money the victims need to pay, and this may mean that the ransom sum will vary depending on the amount of damage caused.
As usual, the attackers want to receive the money via a Bitcoin transaction. They also offer to provide victims with proof that they are in possession of a decryption tool by unlocking three of their files for free. While we advise you to take advantage of this offer, you can rest assured that you should not agree to pay any money to the people who took your files hostage. There's no guarantee that they'll keep their end of the deal, and you might end up losing both your files and your money.
The correct way to deal with threats like the EncryptServer2018 Ransomware is to run a credible anti-virus scanner that will ensure the full removal of all corrupted files. The EncryptServer2018 Ransomware's attack is meant to cause long-term damage to your data so that removing the source of the problem will not do anything to recover your files. Unfortunately, it is not yet possible to decipher this file locker's encryption so that victims might need to resort to using 3rd-party file recovery software whose success is far from guaranteed.
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