FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware

Posted: January 9, 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:	8/10
Infected PCs:	16

First Seen:	May 8, 2023
Last Seen:	May 20, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware is a modification of the Jigsaw Ransomware, a Trojan that can both encrypt and delete files to ransom or destroy them. Due to it maintaining a constant system presence for conducting further attacks, all PC users should act for disabling the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware or minimizing its running conditions as soon as possible. Although anti-malware products may uninstall the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware securely, any locked media requires other methods for restoration to a legible format.

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A new entry in the particularly infamous Jigsaw Ransomware family is just becoming identifiable in central AV databases, with components indicative of European circulation. This version, the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware, is most likely not ready for a full release but does employ the same types of encryption, lock-screen, and deletion features as its more well-known ancestor. The most significant damages remain defensible by PC users who take data storage precautions such as backing up their files.

The FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware doesn't use the movie-themed pop-up of the Jigsaw Ransomware, and, instead, displays a pornographic image in its window, along with a countdown, ransom-paying information, and a Polish warning message. The latter doesn't show many changes from the most common ransom-collecting strategy of demanding Bitcoins, after which, the threat actors claim that they will reverse the effects of the infection.

However, the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware's more significant, but, for now, inactive features include locking digital media (AVI, DOC, GIF, etc.) with an encryption-based cipher and also deleting files. This second attack uses two triggers: whenever the PC reboots and whenever the hourly countdown reaches zero. If users need to identify what content the Trojan is holding for the ransom, they can search for the custom naming tag, which malware experts confirm as being the '.FUCKMEDADDY' extension.

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The FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware is in a debugging stage, although its public distribution almost inevitably will change that status. The Trojan also uses a file-unlocking code that's hard-coded, which could allow users to share it and restore their content without the ransom. For a live campaign, malware researchers suggest storing remote backups of documents and other, at-risk media to save it from the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware's attacks. Paying the ransom doesn't guarantee a decryption solution from the threat actor.

Any reboots of an infected PC should include security protocols against allowing the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware to launch automatically, which provokes the file-deleting feature. Malware experts most often recommend restarting from a recovery USB stick for avoiding the potential triggering of threats from the Jigsaw Ransomware family. Half of most AV brands are detecting this Trojan accurately and may uninstall the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware for preventing any future damage. Its current file data implies that this file-locker Trojan may start its circulation as fake pornographic content.

This Trojan family is notable for sensationalist themes, including members like the Pennywise Ransomware, the Monument Ransomware, the Jokers House Ransomware and the Invisible Empire Ransomware. Since the FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware is another extension to an already-large family, Windows users should consider it as just another underline emphasizing why backing up media is mandatory for anything of value.

FUCKMEDADDY Ransomware

Threat Metric

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Getting Erotic Offenses Off of Your Files

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