The CashU Virus

The CashU virus also known as CashU cryptovirus is a ransomware that blocks an infected computer’s screen and demands a fine to be paid using CashU prepaid payment system. The blocking message is designed to look as if it is sent from a legitimate company or organization of authority such as the local police. There … Continued

The Cheshire Police Authority Virus

The Cheshire Police Authority virus is a ransomware that tries to trick money from people. The sums are as big as £100 from every infection if the victim gets on the scammers’ hook. Here is how this virus works: It pretends to be sent by the United Kingdom Police (Metropolitan Police) as a punishment for … Continued

The Guardia di Finanza virus

The Guardia di Finanza virus is a ransomware program that blocks computer systems and displays bogus message accusing you for some law violations. It was designed by cyber criminals in order to get money from computer users. The program completely locks the infected system and does not allow to run any programs there. The Guardia … Continued

The State of Qatar Ministry of Interior CashU virus

If your computer is blocked by a message stating that it is from State of Qatar Ministry of Interior, do not believe it. It is a scam developed by cyber criminals. The State of Qatar Ministry of Interior CashU virus is a ransomware that belongs to a wide Trojan family called Urausy. Viruses of this … Continued

TheDarkEncryptor virus

TheDarkEncryptor ransomware virus is a sample that integrates a picture of a notorious Jigsaw, also known as Billy the Puppet. The virus explains that the encryption process is done with a military grade encryption algorithm: we guess that it is either one of the ciphers of AES or RSA. A screen locker is also triggered … Continued

TheDRM Ransomware ([email protected])

TheDRM is a relatively new family of ransomware. It was . It includes variants named DMR64, Clown, Notfound, and a few other ones. This ransomware changes the names of your files and encrypts them to make them unreadable. Then it asks you for money to fix those files. TheDRM symptoms and removal: Classification Ransomware. TheDRM infection … Continued

Tilde ransomware

Tilde virus has been released to the society and threatens anyone who has not done his/her homework: hasn’t got the chance to store their files in backup storages instead of keeping the only originals in their PC. Ransomware infections thrive from this careless attitude. If you have your valuable data stored in your USB or … Continued

Tocue File-Locker

Tocue is a file-locking virus that is designed to lure money out of the victims by denying them access to their own files. After losing your data to the Tocue virus is might look like the situation is hopeless — the decryption is strong and the extortionists have no sympathy — but there are a … Continued

Todarius Ransomware

Ransomware is a computer virus that restricts your access to your computer or your files. Screen-locking ransomware is benign compared to encrypting ransomware, like DJVU that’s been frustrating people for the last few months. Todarius is one of the newest variants of DJVU. The ransom note, named “_readme.txt”, is left on your computer after the … Continued

Toec Ransomware

A family of viruses rename user files by adding a new four-letter extension after the real extension (for example, note.txt turns into note.txt.toec). These four-letter file extensions, like Meka, Nakw, Derp, and now Toec, are signs of a very serious issue – a ransomware infection. Ransomware viruses use sophisticated cryptographic algorithms to corrupt user files and … Continued

Topi Ransomware

Yet another Djvu-type malware that came out this week is Topi. You will recognize it by files that have had their file type/extension changed to “.topi”. For example, a file that used to be called “picture.jpg” will become “picture.jpg.topi”. Topi is made to bring in profit to its creators, so it asks you to send … Continued

TOR13 File Locker

The TOR13 file extension indicates a file-locking virus infection. File-encrypting ransomware is a type of malware that is distributed with the goal of earning money to the developers by demanding money from the victims in exchange for the promise to fix their locked files. picture.jpg.id-[random].[[email protected]].TOR13 TOR13 belongs to the Dharma/CrySiS family. Dharma cryptoviruses have existed … Continued

TotalWipeOut ransomware

TotalWipeOut ransomware is designed to infect victims’ computers through bogus email attachments, silently run malicious processes in the background, stop Windows security and lock all personal files, afterward asking for a ransom for the decryption key. Found at the end of August by the TotalWipeOut virus is reported to be demanding for a 1XMR (USD … Continued

TowerWeb ransomware

TowerWeb ransomware is an atypical ransomware threat since it does not use any encryption algorithm and cannot be called as a file encrypting virus or any other similar names. TowerWeb ransomware acts by corrupting the Registry and writing command lines via CMD.exe. About TowerWeb Ransomware ‘‘Payment_Instructions.txt’’ file is dropped in every folder of corrupted files. … Continued

TripleM Ransomware

TripleM is a ransomware virus that targets to infect computers, lock personal files and then ask for a ransom in order to unlock them. Actually, it is a typical ransomware infection – most of them acts the same. Nonetheless, this virus is very lethal and can cause you a lot of cyber security problems. If … Continued

Trojan-Syria virus

Trojan-Syria, full title Wana Decrypt0r Trojan-Syria Editi0n, is a ransomware virus that should be in charge of file encryption, supported by AES algorithm. Despite the fact that this functionality is on the table, and the structure of the virus suggest that such a process could be regulated, the first detected sample did not accomplish the … Continued

TrueCrypt Ransomware

TrueCrypt Ransomware is another species of ransomwares trojans. It bears the name of the application locking data from unauthorized access. TrueCrypt is similar to Cerber, TeslaCrypt, Locky, Cryptowall and other cryptomalwares in the sense that it uses asymmetric encryption to compromise victims’ data. The other features of TrueCrypt virus will be discussed in a minute. … Continued

Truke Ransomware

One of the most devastating viruses is file-encrypting ransomware. Truke is a new example of this type of virus, threatening to make all of your files unusable unless a ransom is paid. This behavior is criminal, but so far, Truke’s developers are still out there, developing and spreading their malware. Symptoms of Truke Unfortunately, it’s likely … Continued

Trump Ransomware

As the United States presidential election is gathering momentum, the world of the viruses has welcomed a new member under the name of the Donald Trump ransomware. This new ransomware virus is said to prosecute the supporters of Trump. However, we cannot rely upon the word of cyber criminals. The virus is still in its … Continued

TrumpLocker ransomware

The controversial president Donald Trump has been getting a lot of attention from the media for quite some time now, ever since election in America began and attempted to find a new persona to replace the former president. A new ransomware sample called by the name TrumpLocker has been detected to encrypt users’ files and display … Continued

.try Files Ransomware

Ransomware infection that goes by the name .try files virus is a dangerous malware that can paralyze your computer. However, the state this virus can put your computer it is not permanent – there are some methods that can solve this. It is categorized as ransomware because once inside of a computer, .try infection encrypts … Continued

Tunca ransomware

Tunca ransomware is a new cryptovirus infection that has been noticed spreading amongst online users at the end of December 2018. This new virus showed up right before the major holidays with crooks’ high hopes to make some profit from distracted users, yet the analysis of the threat showed that developers may have rushed to … Continued

Türk Polisi virus

Türk Polisi (Turkish Police) virus is one more version of a well known FBI virus adapted to computers located in Turkey. Once this malware infiltrates into the system, it blocks a PC completely. A user can only see a screen with a scary looking camera and a warning message. The text is supposed to be … Continued

Turkish FileEncryptor ransomware

Just last week we encountered a novel crypto-virus that chooses its victims from Turkish-speaking countries, but can display its main message in other languages like German and English. Inspiration to create this variant might have derived from the older CTB-Locker infection. The main message (lock-screen) that both of these variants display appear to have some evident … Continued

Twist ransomware

Twist ransomware also known as .twist files virus is a malicious computer infection that seeks to compromise systems, encrypt files stored on a hard drive and then as for a ransom to be paid. This post is dedicated to help you get rid of the virus effectively and restore your files without paying the ransom. … Continued

Tyrant Ransomware

Tyrant Ransomware is a dangerous virus that in case of infection will ask you for $15 ransom in exchange of your personal files, which will be encrypted. Even though fifteen USD is not that much, you should not pay the ransom and instead of that look for other ways to solve this problem. In fact, … Continued

U.S.A. Cyber Crime Investigations malware

U.S.A. Cyber Crime Investigations malware is a ransomware that targets computer users from the USA. It has several versions that attack computers based on the state they are located in, for example, Cyber Command of New York virus, Cyber Command of South Texas virus and so on. The program is installed with the help of … Continued

$ UcyLocker virus

$ UcyLocker ransomware virus is a two-faced variant which is only concerned with money. Despite the fact that READ_IT.txt and the new background image pledges to recover digital data that the virus has purposely ruined and marked with .WINDOWS extension, there is no way that hackers are capable of doing this. After either AES or … Continued

Ufwj Ransomware

Ufwj is ransomware that encrypts files and then tries to get the victims to pay for decryption. The criminals behind this scheme ask for hundreds of dollars from each victim. Ufwj is different from the ransomware attacks that usually get media attention, as this infection preys on smaller victims – individual PC users. It infects … Continued

UIWIX ransomware

A new UIWIX ransomware has been crafted and aspires to be a moneymaking variant. UIWIX virus controls a website, designed to open up via a TOR browser. Once users enter the domain, a panel will require victims to log into the site with an ID number and re-write the displayed captcha. Then, a page with … Continued

Ukash Virus

Ukash Virus is an aggressive group of ransomware scams that tries to swindle your money from you. It is a very convincing virus because it uses alerts presented as given by an official institution, e.g. local or country’s police. It locks your computer completely, therefore, the only thing you can do is to see the message. … Continued

Ultimo Ransomware Virus

Yet another new version of HiddenTear open source ransomware project – Ultimo Ransomware. This particular virus is currently using AES-256 cryptography algorithm. As you might already know – ransomware infections are extremely lethal. Ultimo Ransomware ransomware is no exception, because this virus will lock your personal files and then as for a ransom to be paid … Continued

UmbreCrypt

UmbreCrypt is the name of a new ransomware that uses AEM encryption methods to lock files on users computers. If your computer is infected with this ransomware, most of your files will be inaccessible and you will be asked to pay the ransom to retrieve them. Unfortunately, at the time there are no ways to decrypt … Continued

UnblockUPC Ransomware

UnblockUPC ransomware was detected last week. This particular ransomware virus initially attacked Poland users. Later, Belgian users have reported to have been assaulted as well. UnblockUPC virus does not append any additional filename extension to the encrypted files, unlike many other crypto viruses, which use the extension as their brand. This crypto malware has also … Continued

Ungluk Ransomware

The first wave of Ungluk ransomware started in the late December of 2015. It was detected as Win32/Filecoder.FD trojan by ESET, a Slovakian IT security company, which has also categorized Ungluk filecoder as a variant of Gpcode ransomware family. The ransomware virus uses the asymmetric encryption, which has still not been cracked. How Do You … Continued

Unité Spéciale de la Police virus

Unité Spéciale de la Police virus is a ransomware program that attacks computers located in Luxembourg. It’s a malware that accuses users of violating the law by using copyrighted content without having the legal right for that. It blocks your system and says it will only be unblocked when you pay a fine for violations … Continued

United Kingdom Police Virus

United Kingdom Police virus is a ransomware that seeks to get extra money from random computer users. The program gets into computer using Trojan viruses without users’ knowledge. It blocks the system entirely and does not allow to do anything there. United Kingdom Police virus displays a message on the screen that accuses you of … Continued

United States Courts virus

United States Courts virus is a ransomware application that gets into random computers and tries to makes its users pay a fine pretending that this fine has been imposed by police. The program comes inside systems secretly with a help of Trojan viruses so it is impossible to track it straight away. Once inside, United … Continued

United States Cyber Security Virus

United States Cyber Security Virus is another ransomware designed to attack PCs in USA. The parasite is distributed through trojans downloaded from exploit pages, corrupt shareware and other ways. You might believe that your PC is clean, but if you land on infected website the computer might be infected without any warning or message. That … Continued

Unlock92 ransomware

The 30th of June became the marked date when the Unlock92 ransomware emerged from a virus production machine. It mostly targets Russian-speaking countries. A lot of questions regarding this infection appeared in and that just proves the fact that crooks behind Unlock92 managed to successfully target the virus attack. Why is the name of this ransomware … Continued

UnlockMePlease virus

UnlockMePlease is a new file-encrypting virus, which has been noticed rapidly spreading since late July 2018. It has been discovered recently that this threat is a part of Hermes ransomware family, and depending from the behavior Unlockmeplease virus demonstrates typical crypto-extortionist features that will encrypt your personal files and ask you to pay the ransom. At … Continued

Ured Za Posebne Poslove Sigurnosti virus

Ured Za Posebne Poslove Sigurnosti virus is a ransomware program that blocks computer systems and displays bogus message accusing you for some violations of law and making you pay a fine for that. Actually the program was designed by cyber criminals in order to get money from computer users. The program completely locks the infected … Continued

Urnb File Locker

Urnb is ransomware – a malicious program created to assist in extortion. Urnb uses cryptography to corrupt files so that they can’t be opened or read. It then asks the victim to pay a ransom if they want to get their files back. Urnb can be recognized by the extension “urnb” that it adds to … Continued

Usam Ransomware

Usam is malware that encrypts (corrupts) files and breaks them. Its makers then ask victims to send money if they want to get their files back. While Usam likely doesn’t steal any files, it does come with a spyware trojan that does log contacts, credentials, and various other sensitive information. Now, Usam and the other … Continued

UselessFiles ransomware

UselessFiles is a new cyber threat that is spreading quiet rapidly in the virtual world. It is a typical crypto-infection which gets into your computer through malicious emails or websites, gains the access to all your sensitive personal data and locks it adding .uselessfiles extension name string to the targeted files. Once you can’t access … Continued

UW Computer is GeBlokkeerd virus

UW Computer is GeBlokkeerd virus is a ransowmare designed by cyber criminals in order to get money from you. The program is distributed to computers through system vulnerabilities while users are downloading something or visiting infected websites. Most of the times this happens if you don’t take enough care of your computer’s protection. Judging from … Continued

Uw computer is vergrendeld virus

Uw computer is vergrendeld virus is a ransomware program that was designed by computer hackers to gain money from random users. The virus locks an attacked computer and displays a bogus message in the middle of the screen. The program comes in Dutch and imitates a notification from Dutch Police. Basically, it states that you … Continued

V6cye Ransomware

V6cye is a nasty computer virus that can cause a lot of damage. If you are reading this article, there is a chance that your computer is infected with V5cye virus. In case that is true, your computer is completely paralyzed and you need are forced to pay the ransom in order to retrieve locked … Continued

Vanguard Ransomware

Vanguard Ransomware is a dangerous ransomware virus that might infect your computer and steal files. Actually, not steal, but hijack them and ask for the ransom in order to retrieve them. First of all you need to understand that removing the virus and restoring locked files is two separate tasks and both of them needs … Continued

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