NxRansomware Ransomware

Posted: April 5, 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:	30

First Seen:	April 5, 2017
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The NxRansomware Ransomware is a Trojan that uses the AES and RSA encryptions to block you from opening your files, which con artists can exploit for demanding ransoms. Decrypting the encoded content may be impossible without the key that the NxRansomware Ransomware's threat actors aren't guaranteed to make available to their victims. Besides stopping the NxRansomware Ransomware's installation with the appropriate anti-malware protection, you can use backups to keep an infection from causing any file damage.

Trojans Taking Your Files Hostage in the Latest Updates

GitHub, a major Web resource for free software code, is continuing its trends of being a repository for threatening software. The NxRansomware Ransomware's development on that site dates itself to the middle of last year, but the anti-malware industry is beginning to identify new samples in distribution as of March. The author claims that the NxRansomware Ransomware is simply a 'research proposal,' although the threat uses components pretending to be part of the Google updater software.

The NxRansomware Ransomware requires the Windows .NET Framework for its installation. When it does install itself, the NxRansomware Ransomware scans for files matching its encryption list, with examples of formats malware analysts confirm as being under fire including ZIP archives, Word documents, Java scripts, MP4 audio and MPEG movies. In total, the NxRansomware Ransomware enciphers up to forty-three types of files, using a standard algorithm arrangement of AES and RSA.

The NxRansomware Ransomware also includes a Command & Control server support. Con artists may use C&C capabilities for acquiring information about the infected PCs, exerting control over them, or, with Trojans of the NxRansomware Ransomware's classification particularly, securing the code that's essential for the file-unlocking process.

Ending a Possibly Unwise Threat Proposal

Freely-accessible repositories of software can be both threatening, as well as beneficial, due to a lack of protections to stop bad faith actors from misusing their products. One team of con artists does seem ready to exploit the NxRansomware Ransomware's availability and deploy it in live attacks, either against business entities or regular PC users. Propagation methods that malware experts advise keeping an eye on especially are the attachments of e-mail messages, scripts on potentially unsafe websites, and, as always, suspicious downloads that don't describe their contents accurately or bundle themselves with unidentifiable software.

No free decryption solutions are available for the NxRansomware Ransomware currently. Threat actors usually embark on file-encrypting Trojan campaigns with the intent of selling their decryption solutions to any victims but may not deliver their goods, even if you do pay a ransom (usually via a non-refundable method, such as Bitcoins). Use backups to keep your files secure from the threat of encoding damage, and allow your anti-malware software the opportunity to remove the NxRansomware Ransomware from any of the mentioned infection vectors.

Boundless knowledge comes with great temptation to abuse it. Since freeware Trojan projects are nowhere near vanishing, PC users should stay up-to-date on how they protect themselves from the latest variants like the NxRansomware Ransomware.

NxRansomware Ransomware

Threat Metric

Trojans Taking Your Files Hostage in the Latest Updates

Ending a Possibly Unwise Threat Proposal

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