Swamp RAT Ransomware

The Swamp RAT Ransomware is a Remote Access Trojan or RAT that distracts its victims with a misleading, gay pornography-themed pop-up alert. Users should avoid following its instructions, disable their network connections and proceed with standard disinfection solutions. If necessary, update your anti-malware products' databases for helping them with identifying and uninstalling the Swamp RAT Ransomware and re-secure any credentials, such as passwords, that are at risk from remote attackers.

The Strangest Ransom You'll Ever See Also is One of the Fakest

A Trojan, at first, was presumed for being 'in-development' is fully operational, despite its payload seeming like a joke. The Swamp RAT Ransomware is one of the best examples that malware experts have in 2019 of a threat that delivers faulty information for tricking users into self-sabotaging actions that harm their PC's security further. It also could be awarded a credible title for being a convincing chameleon that imitates a file-locking Trojan but only on a shallow level.

The Swamp RAT Ransomware pretends that it's an amateur, file-locking Trojan like the Jigsaw Ransomware, and displays a pop-up with buttons for showing the hostage files and warning readers of the possible deletion of their media. Most oddly, however, instead of asking for a ransom payment like Bitcoins, the Swamp RAT Ransomware demands the viewing of a gay adult movie clip at maximum volume. The link is a trap that distracts the user while it also unloads the next stage of the payload for dropping the Swamp RAT Ransomware's Remote Access Trojan components.

The RAT handles controls through an admin panel and grants the remote attacker a full view of the user's desktop. Its extra features are similarly invasive, including listing any files and directories, dropping and launching files automatically, and possible information collection-related functions. For now, malware experts are classifying the encryption and file deletion aspects from the pop-up as being bluffs, but an attacker could drop a real, file-locker Trojan through the Swamp RAT Ransomware's preexisting RAT features, if desirable.

Setting Out Poison for the Swamp Rats

The sensationalist and graphic nature of the Swamp RAT Ransomware's payload could distract any victims from more pertinent issues than pornographic hangups, such as the ongoing security problems with their PCs. Disabling one's online connection is invaluable for preventing remote attackers from using a RAT or backdoor-capable threat from further endangering your PC. Although the cyber-security researcher Blackorbird is estimating the campaign's targeting the Polish, malware experts can't confirm this conclusion through the available sample statistics.

The Swamp RAT Ransomware's C&C infrastructure includes at least one compromised blogging website, although the cyber-security industry has reached out to their owner about correcting this domain hijacking. Website admins can protect their servers from similar attacks through updating their server software, especially those who use prominent blogging-related platforms like WordPress. On the other end of an attack, the users can protect their PCs with anti-malware solutions for deleting the Swamp RAT Ransomware on sight.

With a Trojan, what you see and what you get aren't always the same thing, which the Swamp RAT Ransomware demonstrates graphically. Doing what a criminal's Black Hat software says to do, usually, ends up causing more problems, but rarely ones that are as serious as delivering a backdoor channel to your computer over to the attacker.