CryptoFinancial Ransomware
The CryptoFinancial Ransomware is a threat infection. Although the CryptoFinancial Ransomware appears to be a ransomware Trojan, the CryptoFinancial Ransomware is designed to trick computer users into believing that it has encrypted their files, while in fact, the CryptoFinancial Ransomware has deleted the victim's files. The CryptoFinancial Ransomware does not provide any way of recovering the victim's files, making it particularly obnoxious. Computer users should shelter their machines from the CryptoFinancial Ransomware with a reliable anti-malware program that is fully up-to-date. The CryptoFinancial Ransomware, although appearing to be a ransomware Trojan, seems to have more in common with lock screen ransomware threats in the way the CryptoFinancial Ransomware carries out its attack.
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How the CryptoFinancial Ransomware Takes Advantage of Computer Users
To fully understand what the CryptoFinancial Ransomware does, one must first understand what ransomware Trojans, particularly of the encryption variety, do to a computer. Encryption ransomware Trojans are a variety of threats that have become very popular in recent years. These threats enter a computer through typical threat delivery methods and encrypts the victim's files. These infections use asymmetrical encryption methods that allow the attack to retain the encryption key, preventing victims from decrypting their files or using some decryption utility to obtain the decryption key. These programs take the victim's files hostage essentially, demanding the payment of a ransom (typically around 1 BitCoin or approximately $650 USD) in exchange for the decryption key.
The CryptoFinancial Ransomware does not take the victim's files hostage. Instead, the CryptoFinancial Ransomware kills its hostages but demands the ransom anyway. The CryptoFinancial Ransomware will outright delete the victim's files, displaying a lock screen that is designed to mimic the ransom notes commonly associated with encryption ransomware Trojans. This 'ransom note' will claim that the CryptoFinancial Ransomware has encrypted the victim's files and demands the payment of 0.2 BitCoin to recover the files. However, the CryptoFinancial Ransomware does nothing to allow computer users to recover their files since it deletes them from the victim's computer. Because of this, computer users shouldn't pay the 'ransom.'
Recovering from a CryptoFinancial Ransomware Attack
Recovering from a CryptoFinancial Ransomware infection involves the same method as recovering from a real encryption ransomware Trojan; computer users will have to restore their files from a backup. Since it is never advisable to pay an encryption ransomware Trojan's ransom, and there is no guarantee that these people will honor their word to restore the files, PC security analysts advise computer users to restore their files from a backup and remove the threat from their computers. This is what computer users should to recover from a the CryptoFinancial Ransomware attack as well, except that in this case, the possibility of obtaining a decryption key does not exist, since the files will have been deleted from the victim's computer.
Preventing the CryptoFinancial Ransomware Attacks
In the case of the CryptoFinancial Ransomware and most other ransomware attacks, prevention is the key. These infections depend on computer users making mistakes online to infect their computers. The most common method used to deliver these threats is the use of corrupted email messages with social engineering content used to lure computer users into opening a compromised file attachment or clicking on a corrupted embedded link. Being cautious online and always using a reliable security program that is fully up-to-date (so that it will intercept any unforeseen threats) are both essential in preventing the CryptoFinancial Ransomware infections, as well as other threats. To aid in recovery and to lower one's vulnerability to these attacks, malware analysts strongly recommend that computer users backup their files regularly. Computer users should ensure that the backup is not connected to the affected computer as by using an external drive since the CryptoFinancial Ransomware, and other threats will attack all drives detected on the targeted computer.
