LataRebo Locker Ransomware

Posted: January 26, 2017

Threat Metric

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	63

First Seen:	January 26, 2017
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware is a Trojan that displays a pop-up to lock your screen and demands payment before you receive the password for removing it. While the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware is similar to more advanced threats superficially, malware analysts rate this Trojan as being a low-level threat with an easily-disabled desktop lock-down. Follow the instructions in this article for removing the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware and its pop-up without paying, or, ideally, have anti-malware products that can detect it before it compromises your PC.

A Social Platform Corrupted for Misdeeds

Facebook's popularity sometimes hurts its service as much as it helps, with con artists, just as much as ordinary users, finding ways of exploiting the website in the service of their self-interest. The 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware is a new, screen-locking Trojan that the cyber security industry caught in the second to last month of January, and makes use of the Facebook site as a secondary communication method. As usual, the threat actor's goal is making a profit, in this case, by using the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware to take your entire PC hostage.

While future revisions of the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware may include additional ransoming capabilities, such as file encryption, current versions of this threat limit themselves to locking the victim's desktop. Systems compatible with Windows-based WIN32 executable applications are at risk from the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware's payload. The Trojan generates an interactive HTA window with a custom background image, a password field, and text instructions demanding that you pay a ransom.

What malware experts see in similar threats that the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware includes is its pop-up's payment method rarely: a Paysafecard PIN number that the victim can PM (or private message) to the threat actor's Facebook account. Most professional threat authors prefer to use more reliable communications solutions than Facebook, along with preferring cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin instead of the (previously more popular) Paysafecard.

Beating the New Twist on a Water Bottle Challenge

Except for the demand for real money to remove its screen-locking window, the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware has little in common with professionally-managed threat campaigns of any sophistication. Current versions of the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware use a hard-coded password for unlocking themselves, instead of customizing the code per victim, which causes the attack to be easy to dismantle without paying. Inputting 'Rebatsa' into the Trojan's 'insert key' field will remove the pop-up and let you continue with disinfecting your computer.

While malware experts' continuing examinations of the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware fail to find any additional attacks of note, the Trojan should be taken credibly as a threat that can block you from using your operating system's UI. Disable in-browser scripts, use security software to analyze downloading files and stay aware of archetypal attacks (such as Facebook-based fake links) that might be responsible for drive-by-downloads abetting this Trojan campaign. Because of its limited attack capabilities, very few anti-malware products list this Trojan in their databases currently. Heuristic removal of the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware by updated security software remains your PC's best, last-defense protection.

Never be too quick about paying a con artist to help reverse the effects of his bad action; with programs like the 'LataRebo Locker' Ransomware, the consequences are particularly evident as being a tragic waste of money.

LataRebo Locker Ransomware

Threat Metric

A Social Platform Corrupted for Misdeeds

Beating the New Twist on a Water Bottle Challenge

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