

Major AV programs did not detect it until September 17, which resulted in significant damage inflicted

Registered, with the first description on September 10, see It was discovered in early September 2013 (around September 3 when domains to reach C&C center were The problem is that such a solution does not and can't include restoration of First of all disinfectingįrom Trojan is trivial, as it is launched by standard CurrentVersion\Run registryĮntry. Non-mapped drive or with the extension not targeted by the Trojan).īeware snake oil salesmen, who try to sell you the "disinfection" solution. Restore your files from a backup (if you are lucky to have a recent backup on disconnected or.To pay the ransom hoping that cyber crooks will start the decryption.At the same time the three days timer is real and if it is expire possibility of decryptingįiles is gone. ?), so far at least one server the Trojan "pings" is usually operational. Which you may or may not getĪs servers that can transmit it from the Command and Control center might be already blocked stillĬhances are reasonably high - server names to which Trojan connect to get public key changes (daily So it is very effective in extorting money for decryption key. It really encrypts the data in a way that excludes possibility of decryption without paying ransom. It will destroy (aka encrypt) your "cloud" backups too. Without versioning and this backup has an extension present in the list of extensions used by this Trojan, If you offload your backups to cloud storage It also targetsīackups of your data on USB and mapped network drives. Unlike most Trojans this one does not need Admin access to inflict the most damage. Into front pages of major newspapers like One of few Trojan/viruses which managed to get On malware, antivirus programs and on backup routines. This is a game changing Trojan, which belong to the class of malware known as (slightly skeptical) Educational society promoting " Back to basics" movement against IT overcomplexityĬryptolocker Trojan (Win32/Crilock.A) Version 2.1 (Oct 28, 2013)ĭoes not guarantee that you will get your files back, only cold backup does Softpanorama May the source be with you, but remember the KISS principle -)
