W1F1RANSOM Ransomware

The W1F1RANSOM Ransomware is a fake file-locking Trojan that pretends to block or delete your files while displaying a threatening pop-up. The users can close its window with a hard-coded password and have no reason for paying the ransom. Having backups for your files' defense could be helpful for future upgrades of the threat, and most anti-malware tools should delete the W1F1RANSOM Ransomware as a danger to your computer.

The 'Wifi' Access that You Don't Want

A threat actor is testing out samples of what could turn into a file-locking Trojan, eventually, although malware analysts conclude that the current builds include significant handicaps. The W1F1RANSOM Ransomware is a Windows program not yet seen in the wild and promotes itself with the alternate name of 'W1F1SN1FF3R ' (AKA, Wifisniffer). If its ransoming message is accurate, the author plans on including attacks in this threat that block or delete your files, along with stopping your accessibility to at least one, critical security tool.

The W1F1RANSOM Ransomware locks the screen with an HTA pop-up that shows no borders or related UI elements, such as buttons for minimizing or maximizing. The window includes grammatically-incorrect English taunts that claim that it's deleting unspecified files, along with an assertion that you no longer can access the Windows Task Manager (a useful program for monitoring and controlling other programs' memory processes and related resources). The authors' goal is collecting one Bitcoin or Ether cryptocurrency, for which they provide two wallet addresses.

Unlike the products of the RaaS industry, most of the W1F1RANSOM Ransomware's visuals are unprofessional and imply that the threat actors are equivalent to the so-called 'script kiddy' appellation of a programmer with virtually no experience. Malware researchers are verifying the use of a non-dynamic password for unlocking the window, which supports this theory. Entering '0000' will close the window, and the W1F1RANSOM Ransomware has no other attacks of note.

Unplugging Yourself from a Wifi Ransom

The W1F1RANSOM Ransomware, in its current state, is categorizable as a screen-locking Trojan, rather than one that attacks your files. However, encryption features aren't complex necessarily, and threat actors can copy-paste them from free sources into their preexisting coding projects. As well, while the current version of the W1F1RANSOM Ransomware can't harm your files, the file-locking Trojans that it imitates are more than capable of doing so. In most cases, a full recovery of any content is possible through a backup exclusively.

Threat actors introduce file-locking Trojans to their victims commonly by compromising logins that have bad passwords (simple, short, or default ones) or sending disguised e-mail messages to their targets. Besides the usual precautions in such cases, malware researchers also encourage avoiding illicit torrents and other, pirated downloads, as well as disabling exploitable features like Flash, Java, JavaScript and Word macros. Having anti-malware software available should reduce the risk drastically since half of all AV brands, already, are deleting the W1F1RANSOM Ransomware appropriately.

The W1F1RANSOM Ransomware, as it stands, is capable of doing little more than inconveniencing any users who can't search for its password on an alternate device. It's never too late for Trojans to change, however, and anyone who's hoping their files will stay safe without doing anything about it is setting themselves up for disappointment.