Nhtnwcuf Ransomware

Posted: March 9, 2017

Threat Metric

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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.

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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.

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Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	5

First Seen:	March 9, 2017
Last Seen:	January 9, 2021
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Nhtnwcuf Ransomware is a Trojan that overwrites your files with randomized data to imitate a file-encrypting attack, although no decryption or other recovery is possible. Besides the particular importance of having a backup to counteract these damages, PC users can protect themselves by monitoring e-mail spam and network port settings for any vulnerabilities and attempted attacks. Remove the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware with a preferred anti-malware tool before replacing any damaged media with undamaged backups.

The File Problem that's Even Worse than You Think

Trojan-based ransoming tactics are, in many ways, the modern face of the threat industry, but many of the most important details of these attacks are variable according to the whims of the remote attackers. One trend that malware experts find reoccurring occasionally is a Trojan campaign pretending to encrypt the victim's files without doing so. In the least damaging attacks, this bluff may not cause any damage to your media, but with the new the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware, the harm is irrevocable.

Malware experts found evidence to verify that the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware's campaign is in active operation recently, with the unknown threat actors infecting new PCs after brute-force attacking systems using RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) vulnerabilities. The manually-installed Nhtnwcuf Ransomware operates much faster than a real file-encrypting Trojan because it doesn't use an enciphering algorithm, such as the AES-128. Instead, the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware overwrites your files with semi-random 'junk' data, stopping after replacing up to 10.24 megabytes.

This distinction is important since the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware's other symptoms are in line with those of the file-encoding Trojans it strives to impersonate. The Nhtnwcuf Ransomware generates one of two text files claiming that an encryption attack has taken place and you can pay a Bitcoin ransom in return for getting the decryptor. However, no decryption process is compatible with the damage that the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware inflicts.

Keeping Your Hard Drive out of the Way of a Digital Con

Paying the fee the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware's instructions request (one Bitcoin, equal to over one thousand USD) may support the Trojan's authors financially, but even their full cooperation can't provide a victim with a viable file recovery solution. Users without backups will have no recourse for data restoration, regardless of whether they pay the ransom. Since the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware's authors are using a non-refundable cryptocurrency, those who make the payment before researching the Trojan's payload will be left poorer both in files and funds.

Close monitoring of systems using Remote Desktop features could limit the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware's currently verifiable infection vectors. Other attacks may distribute this threat via e-mail attachments or additional means. Malware experts also suggest keeping backups on external servers or devices, since doing so will eliminate the greatest possibility of harm from both the Nhtnwcuf Ransomware and actual, file-encrypting Trojans.

The Nhtnwcuf Ransomware is a brazen showing of the problems implicit in trusting the people who attack your computer. Ransom messages dropped by threatening software rarely have anything good to say, and their advice always must be considered with an eye towards their con artists' self-interest.

Nhtnwcuf Ransomware

Threat Metric

The File Problem that's Even Worse than You Think

Keeping Your Hard Drive out of the Way of a Digital Con

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