'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware

Posted: August 26, 2016

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Threat Level:	10/10
Infected PCs:	26

First Seen:	August 26, 2016
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware is a Trojan that uses encryption to block your files. These attacks almost always include ransom demands through the accompanying e-mail addresses, although, historically, the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware's administrators have not provided decryption assistance after being paid. You should attempt other means of recovering encoded content once you remove the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware through established anti-malware procedures.

A Legion's Worth of File Bandits

The sub-industry of corrupted file encryption campaigns within the overall threat market subsists on the essential contradiction of tricking victims into paying for a decryption help that may never emerge. Most threat actors responsible for these campaigns take various steps to encourage the recipients of their attacks to make payments in blind faith, but not all are as careful as others. With the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware and some related threats (see also: the 'Seven_legion@aol.com' Ransomware), the Trojan's administrators have tipped their hand too far.

The 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware's distribution centers on brute force attacks against any server accounts with weak login data. After the threat actors gain server access, they install the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware' manually. The 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware's payload scans for files not related to the operating system of the current machine directly and uses an AES-based cipher for encrypting them, causing potentially permanent damage. Malware experts can confirm that the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware is using a renaming strategy following the format of most CrySiS-based threats, including a new ID number, extension tag and its e-mail address.

When contacted through that address, the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware's threat actors ask for the victim to download a decryptor program that generates a key. However, doing so doesn't provide a full solution, and the on artists ask for ransom payments before taking any further steps to restore your content.

After taking their extortion money, they cease all communications with the victim.

A Trojan Legion in Flight from Itself

Although many con artists using file encryption threats cycle through new variants periodically, the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware's admins have notable histories for using differing e-mail addresses and corresponding Trojans especially. These changes seem to be an effort to avoid the consequences of their poor 'customer' feedback, which would cause most informed victims to hesitate before paying any ransom. At this date, alternate methods of decrypting the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware's content also have not been made available.

Limited decryption possibilities make it all the more critical to protect any vital content through other means, of which malware analysts endorse the use of backups especially. Local backups never should be depended on over ones stored in places less susceptible to deletion by threats like the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware.

Deleting the 'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware with any available anti-malware solutions may offer no help to your already encrypted data, but it does, at least, prevent this threat from causing any additional damage. Unfortunately, since con artists in the industry demand payments through methods that you can't rescind typically, any money spent may be lost for good.

'Legioner_seven@aol.com' Ransomware

Threat Metric

A Legion's Worth of File Bandits

A Trojan Legion in Flight from Itself

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