WhiteRose Ransomware

The WhiteRose Ransomware is a file-locking Trojan that can block your documents, pictures, and additional formats of media by encrypting them. The WhiteRose Ransomware's attacks also use ransom messages for collecting money from the victims for its decryption tool, which could prove a data-restoring solution. Backing up your work, contacting cybersecurity specialists for further decryption help, and having anti-malware programs for removing the WhiteRose Ransomware are the responses that malware experts can endorse.

A Rose with Its Thorns Embedded in Your Files

Another threat targeting digital media is starting a campaign with multiple victims in evidence. The Trojan, the WhiteRose Ransomware, shows symptoms of being a variant of the InfinityShadow Ransomware or InfiniteTear, which is a .NET Framework project with historically high rates of avoiding being detected by cybersecurity databases. Malware experts have yet to confirm how the WhiteRose Ransomware is spreading but e-mail spammed messages and their associated, attached files and Web links are the methods most favored with similar attacks.

The WhiteRose Ransomware uses an AES-based encryption routine for 'locking' different files on an infected computer, which may range from Word documents to audio or movies. The WhiteRose Ransomware overwrites the entire name of every file with semi-random characters, as well as including an '_ENCRYPTED_' tag and a '.WHITEROSE' extension. Last, like most file-locker Trojans, the WhiteRose Ransomware delivers a ransom message inside of a Notepad TXT file.

The WhiteRose Ransomware's ransom note is more poetic than most of those texts that malware experts analyze and includes a short, pseudo-autobiographical description of gardening white roses. However, readers who continue scrolling down also will find the practical details: an offer of a free decryption sample, a demand for money, and a link for TOR, the anonymous Web browser.

Taking a Weed-Eater to the WhiteRose Ransomware

The WhiteRose Ransomware's small, .NET-using family is not as much of a mark on the threat landscape as Trojans like Hidden Tear. However, it does use real, data-blocking attacks that could convert your files into formats that are no longer usable and without any chances of recovering them. Having backups that you save to a non-vulnerable device is a dependable way of preventing Trojans with the WhiteRose Ransomware's capabilities from, effectively, imprisoning your media.

Despite multiple instances of victims reporting attacks from the WhiteRose Ransomware, the campaign's infection vectors, still, are under identification. Malware experts suggest monitoring the security of your network's passwords and scanning all e-mail attachments for hostile content, such as a macro using an exploit for loading a Trojan downloader. Many anti-malware products already are viable detection methods for blocking the WhiteRose Ransomware and other versions of the InfinityShadow Ransomware family.

The resurrection of InfiniteTear, via the WhiteRose Ransomware, a surprise necessarily. Cybercrooks can continue using old software for new harmful actions, as long as those whom they attack aren't taking the right precautions.