'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware

Posted: November 24, 2016

Threat Metric

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Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	19

First Seen:	November 28, 2016
Last Seen:	June 23, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware is a Trojan that encrypts your files with a Blowfish-based cipher, locking them so that it can extort ransom money. These payments are by no means assured of giving you your files back, and the Trojan also may erase any default Windows backups. Keeping external copies of your content and anti-malware products for removing the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware are the defenses malware analysts encourage using against this threat.

The Service that Keeps on Giving (to Extortionists)

Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) is a business model that malware analysts see more and more throughout the year, as con artists seek to decentralize both the risk and the work of turning malware coding into a profitable enterprise. Perhaps more due to sheer availability than any other factor, families like the Globe Ransomware continue being sources for new threats. This family began with sensationalist Trojans like the Purge Ransomware, running all the way up to the newest variant, the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware.

The 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware continues leveraging the signature attack of its family, a data-encoding attack targeting different formats of files, such as documents, photos or music. The enciphering routine blocks the affected content until you decode it, a solution that the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware's threat actor holds hostage with a decryption key.

The 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware also bundles its contact method for ransoming the key with its encryption attack: it appends an extension with its e-mail address onto any encoded data. Some versions of the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware may deliver additional information through images that the Trojan displays by resetting your desktop wallpaper to one of its own, or by generating advanced HTML pop-ups. Similar campaigns by the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware's relatives often encourage fast ransom payments by threatening to delete your content or the information needed for decryption, although their timer often is a bluff.

Serving Yourself the Protection You Need Against RaaS

Although the routine involvement of additional third parties in ransomware distribution lends some unpredictability to the business, malware analysts often see patterns from this category of threat. Trojans disguising themselves as e-mail-circulated documents, or installing themselves through vulnerabilities embedded in such content, have good chances of distributing file-encrypting Trojans like the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware. Elsewhere, weak network passwords or browsers loading corrupted websites give threat actors other ways to disseminate different forms of the Globe Ransomware family.

Decryption through these services can be both self-destructive to your data and your finances, and always should be ignored when alternate solutions are possible. The 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware's family does include several free decryptors for the public to download from various PC security organizations. When decryption is impossible, you always can restore your files from a backup not subject to deletion by the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware.

Many anti-malware products should handle deleting the 'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware with minimal challenge, but the lingering damage that Trojans like this can do to your hard drive's contents never should be taken for granted.

'Grapn206@india.com' Ransomware

Threat Metric

The Service that Keeps on Giving (to Extortionists)

Serving Yourself the Protection You Need Against RaaS

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