North East Data Recovery Lab

"Beware from the LOCKY attack"

For the last four years, ransomware has evolved into one of the biggest threats to cyber security that I’ve seen in a long time. Names like CryptoLocker, CryptoWall, and CTBLocker keep average computer users. For good reason: Ransomware is cunning, effective, and proliferating, and the cyber security industry hasn’t really had an answer for it. This Trojan Horse, discovered on September 2013 encrypts the files on a user's hard drive, then prompts them to pay a ransom to the developer in order to receive the decryption key, making it the first true ransomware.
Ransomware is easy to understand but hard to beat. It infects the machine, encrypts all files and then demands payment to get the files back. Ransomware works so well that most variants will even remove themselves when the damage is done, knowing you have the choice of either paying the ransomware author in form of digital currency to get your files back, or risk losing them forever.
The ransomware we see today is so sophisticated that the advanced encryption it uses makes it impossible to get your files back without paying the ransom. Unfortunately, online and locally connected backup systems fail as an effective countermeasure. This is because ransomware actively looks for different types of backup systems and encrypts the saved files. In the case of online backups, automatic file uploads may corrupt files thought secure.
Most of today’s security software simply cannot protect you from ransomware. Ransomware does not act like traditional malware: some are automatically updated every day, and even use polymorphic (shapeshifting!) code to evade detection. This makes it exceedingly hard to detect.
In India at least 150 computers of Mantralaya, headquarters of the Maharashtra government, were attacked by a malicious software known as Locky ransomware, which blocks access to computers. Officials said the attack targeted files from the revenue and public works departments but the damage was contained before it could spread. And recently at 14th september a private firm of Assam is also affected by this virus, so beware of it. You may be the next victim.
And also the Mac users are no longer immune to an increasingly popular type of this virus, researchers say. A Ransomware virus, which locks files on a victim’s computer unless the user sends hackers money, has affected Apple’s desktop operating system for the first time, researchers said March 4.
The virus, which Reuters first reported, was detected in a downloadable Mac program called Transmission, which is used to share data through BitTorrent’s network. Researchers have nicknamed the ransomware “KeRanger.”
Palo Alto Networks warns that anyone who downloaded the Transmission installer between 11 a.m. PT on March 4 and 7 p.m. PT on March 5 may be at risk. It can take three days after installing the malicious software to see its effects, according to the researchers.
To get raid from this virus attack a simple way is backup your valuable data everyday on an external hard drive or google drive safely and never visit the harmful websites and always keep updated your antivirus and don’t go for downloading crack software’s and also never access any untrusted email links on your spam in your mail box. And if you may know that unfortunately your files were changed the format to .cerber2/3 extension then quickly dis-connect your internet connection ASAP. It may save your remaining valuable data’s.