Look1213@protonmail.com Ransomware

Posted: June 1, 2017

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:

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:	10/10
Infected PCs:	84

First Seen:	June 1, 2017
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware is a Trojan that promotes file-locking attacks to extort money from its victims. PC users who fail to block this threat can use free data recovery options, such as freeware decryptors, although malware experts stress using backups as being the better solution to this file damage. Remove the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware with any brand of anti-malware software that you trust before taking any other recovery steps appropriate to your situation.

Trojans Diving in from the Remotest Locations

Blatant user errors like clicking on corrupted files or websites aren't always the genesis of a Trojan campaign. For some attacks, particularly ones leveraging file-encrypting payloads, the victim's only mistake might be using a bad password for their server. This introduction method is one that malware experts are continuing to see rising among members of the BTCWare Ransomware family and its extant variants, like the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware.

Threat actors that install it after they gain prior access to a vulnerable Windows PC are spreading the ‘look1213@protonmail.com’ Ransomware manually. No specialized tools, such as rootkits, need to be involved necessarily, since the Remote Desktop Protocol (or RDP) features, alone, allow sufficient access to let the on artists infect the computer. The initial breach could arise from brute-forcing an inappropriately weak password (such as 'password123' or 'admin1'), or the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware's authors having acquired it through old phishing attacks.

The 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware locks documents and similar formats of media with a background process, also appending the threat actor's e-mail address to the name in brackets. As per usual for most families of file-encoding Trojans, malware experts only find symptoms of significant visibility after the file-damaging routine completes, and the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware creates a text-based ransoming message.

Solving the Security Problem that You Find out about Too Late

The BTCWare Ransomware family is notable for using variable ciphers in different versions, including the ever-popular AES and the less prominent RC4. Since these changes can impact how easy it is for you to unlock your files, be careful to back up any content before running it through free decryptors, even ones customized for the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware's family. Malware experts also encourage keeping remote backups that store your data out of harm's way before this Trojan infects your computer.

Proper password management is crucial to preventing threat actors from compromising your PC remotely and installing threats that can hold your data for ransom. Although the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware's authors offer samples of their decryption services and may barter with their fees, a ransom payment, ultimately, can't guarantee that they'll unlock any documents, pictures or other content. PC owners can use standard anti-malware applications for removing the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware infections afterward. They also may wish to quarantine it to provide sample analysis for interested security researchers.

There's never a safe time to take your passwords for granted as being impenetrable. Using common words or phrases, not alternating your cases, and using few or no numerical characters are some of the easiest ways to invite Trojans like the 'look1213@protonmail.com' Ransomware into your server.

Look1213@protonmail.com Ransomware

Threat Metric

Trojans Diving in from the Remotest Locations

Solving the Security Problem that You Find out about Too Late

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