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Scarab-kitty Ransomware

By GoldSparrow in Ransomware

The Scarab-kitty Ransomware is an encryption ransomware Trojan that is a variant in the Scarab family of ransomware, a well-known family of threats that has numerous variants and carries out typical encryption ransomware attacks. The Scarab-kitty Ransomware, like other variants in the Scarab Ransomware family, is designed to take victims' files hostage, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for restoring the compromised data. One slight difference between the Scarab-kitty Ransomware and its predecessors is that the criminals now accept payments using DASH apart from Bitcoin, the more commonly used payment option.

Symptoms of a Scarab-kitty Ransomware Attack

The Scarab-kitty Ransomware attack is virtually identical to most Scarab variants: the Scarab-kitty Ransomware uses the AES and RSA encryptions to make the victim's files inaccessible. Typically, the Scarab-kitty Ransomware will enter a computer by taking advantage of social engineering weaknesses or vulnerabilities in the victim's device or network. A common way the criminals use to distribute the Scarab-kitty Ransomware is through corrupted spam email messages. Once the Scarab-kitty Ransomware has been installed onto the victim's computer, the Scarab-kitty Ransomware uses its encryption algorithm to target the user-generated files, commonly targeting a wide variety of file types, which may include numerous media files, document types, databases, configuration files and others. The Scarab-kitty Ransomware attack marks the files it compromises with the addition of the file extension '.kitty,' which it will add to each file's name. The Scarab-kitty Ransomware targets the files described below in these attacks:

.jpg, .jpeg, .raw, .tif, .gif, .png, .bmp, .3dm, .max, .accdb, .db, .dbf, .mdb, .pdb, .sql, .dwg, .dxf, .cpp, .cs, .h, .php, .asp, .rb, .java, .jar, .class, .py, .js, .aaf, .aep, .aepx, .plb, .prel, .prproj, .aet, .ppj, .psd, .indd, .indl, .indt, .indb, .inx, .idml, .pmd, .xqx, .xqx, .ai, .eps, .ps, .svg, .swf, .fla, .as3, .as, .txt, .doc, .dot, .docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm, .docb, .rtf, .wpd, .wps, .msg, .pdf, .xls, .xlt, .xlm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .xltx, .xltm, .xlsb, .xla, .xlam, .xll, .xlw, .ppt, .pot, .pps, .pptx, .pptm, .potx, .potm, .ppam, .ppsx, .ppsm, .sldx, .sldm, .wav, .mp3, .aif, .iff, .m3u, .m4u, .mid, .mpa, .wma, .ra, .avi, .mov, .mp4, .3gp, .mpeg, .3g2, .asf, .asx, .flv, .mpg, .wmv, .vob, .m3u8, .dat, .csv, .efx, .sdf, .vcf, .xml, .ses, .qbw, .qbb, .qbm, .qbi, .qbr , .cnt, .des, .v30, .qbo, .ini, .lgb, .qwc, .qbp, .aif, .qba, .tlg, .qbx, .qby , .1pa, .qpd, .txt, .set, .iif, .nd, .rtp, .tlg, .wav, .qsm, .qss, .qst, .fx0, .fx1, .mx0, .fpx, .fxr, .fim, .ptb, .ai, .pfb, .cgn, .vsd, .cdr, .cmx, .cpt, .csl, .cur, .des, .dsf, .ds4, , .drw, .eps, .ps, .prn, .gif, .pcd, .pct, .pcx, .plt, .rif, .svg, .swf, .tga, .tiff, .psp, .ttf, .wpd, .wpg, .wi, .raw, .wmf, .txt, .cal, .cpx, .shw, .clk, .cdx, .cdt, .fpx, .fmv, .img, .gem, .xcf, .pic, .mac, .met, .pp4, .pp5, .ppf, .nap, .pat, .ps, .prn, .sct, .vsd, .wk3, .wk4, .xpm, .zip, .rar.

The Scarab-kitty Ransomware delivers a ransom note to the victim's computer, dropping it on the infected computer's desktop. The criminals ask the victim to contact them via email and pay a ransom amount using DASH or Bitcoin. However, the victims should not make any payment, which can put them at risk of additional infections or other issues and does not ensure that the criminals will keep their word and restore the compromised data. Instead, computer users should take preemptive measures against threats like the Scarab-kitty Ransomware.

Protecting Your Computer from Harmful Threats Like the Scarab-kitty Ransomware

The best protection against encryption ransomware threats like the Scarab-kitty Ransomware is to have the means to restore any files that become compromised as a result of a Scarab-kitty Ransomware infection. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that computer users have file backups and that these are stored in well-guarded places. Having file backups removes the criminals' leverage to demand ransom payments and allows the victims of the Scarab-kitty Ransomware attack restore their data after a Scarab-kitty Ransomware attack.

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