Harma Ransomware

Tackling a ransomware infection can often end up being an impossible battle – many modern file-encryption Trojans employ an advanced mechanism to encrypt the files of their victims, therefore rendering most data recovery options useless. This is the faith that awaits the victims of the Harma Ransomware, a file-locker based on the Dharma Ransomware project. This threat targets many popular file formats such as documents, spreadsheets, presentations, videos, images, archives and many others. It is certain that if the Harma Ransomware manages to get on your computer, it will cause potentially irreversible damage to a large fraction of the files stored there immediately.

Unfortunately, there is no free decryption option to help you when it comes to recovering from the Harma Ransomware’s attack. The only secure way to undo the damage is to restore your files from a backup copy but, unfortunately, this might not be a viable solution for many users who do not use backup services and software.

Victims of the Harma Ransomware should be able to analyze the damage quickly because all locked files will have their names changed due to the inclusion of the ‘.id-.[WSS911@tutanota.com].harma’ extension. The ransom note used by many Dharma variants is ‘FILES ENCRYPTED.txt,’ and there is a significant chance that the Harma Ransomware’s authors might be using the same file to provide their victims with contact details and payment instruction.

Although the attackers promise to supply their victims with a data decryption tool as soon as they pay a Bitcoin ransom, we assure you that you should not accept this offer since it may not end well for you. Even if you end up sending the Bitcoin to the wallet of the attackers, they might not provide you with anything in return. Cooperating with cybercriminals is never a good idea so that the suggestion is to use an anti-malware tool to dispose of the file-locker, and then look into alternative file recovery options.