Poop Ransomware

The Poop Ransomware is a file-locking Trojan that can block media on your computer, such as pictures, with encryption. Other symptoms of this threat include an interactive pop-up warning that asks for Bitcoins and the extensions that it includes into the files that it takes hostage. Users should always back any valuable work up for saving it from infections of this classification, along with keeping anti-malware products at hand for deleting the Poop Ransomware.

The Smell of Excrement Stinking Up Your OS

A threat actor with the name of Poebator – possibly, a reference to a small Russian band – is designing a new, file-locker Trojan for extorting cryptocurrency. Although malware researchers have yet to see signs of victims in the wild, the Poop Ransomware's encryption is working, and it includes other features that are standard for a Trojan of its kind. Besides its unhygienic brand name, the Poop Ransomware goes by other labels – ones referring to parts of Windows.

At least two versions of the Poop Ransomware include executable installers with references like 'dllhost' and other file information that suggests that the file is a part of the Windows operating system. This choice may not imply that the Poop Ransomware's download tactic takes place through fake updates necessarily since it could just as readily be a way of hiding while it performs the encryption, after gaining access through other strategies. The Poop Ransomware, like many amateur file-locker Trojans, claims that its encryption for locking files is 'military grade,' although malware experts have yet to analyze it and corroborate the claim.

Besides the locking of files like pictures or documents and adding 'poop' extensions to them, the Poop Ransomware generates an advanced HTML pop-up. Besides the usual ransoming components, including a Bitcoin wallet link, the Poop Ransomware warns users that taking security-related actions will provoke a response from the criminal, in the form of leaking information to a Black Market forum. Like the Euclid Ransomware or the year-old Instalador Ransomware, the Poop Ransomware also gives the victims a Telegram-using negotiation channel.

Cyber-Plumbing for Software Refuse

The Poop Ransomware's campaign may not be live, yet, since its wallet shows activity, but not actions that are consistent with recurring ransom payments. Because its encryption's security is a mystery, users should avoid gambling on the future safety of their files by assuming that free decryption is possible. Backing up work to a portable device or cloud service is a surefire way of recovering any content that the Poop Ransomware encrypts without involving a Bitcoin fee.

The thousand-dollar ransom that the Poop Ransomware asks for is neither so high that only an enterprise-level entity would pay it nor so cheap that it's only relevant to average users. The programming, however, shows limited sophistication, and most security products are detecting the Trojan through traditional heuristics. Have an appropriate anti-malware program delete the Poop Ransomware before you recover your media through the means of your preference.

There's nothing so ubiquitous in humanity as the stench of greed, and the Poop Ransomware is expressing that ill-founded motivation through the usual tricks and traps. Simultaneously, it requires no extra precautions that are unique to it for keeping its attacks from making money, as long as you prepare yourself and your files appropriately.