Assertion: ransom's file | /r/HasProperty | encrypted
Facets:
value: after paying the ransom
type: TEMPORAL
value: successfully
type: MANNER
value: suddenly
type: MANNER
value: both
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: YOUR DOCUMENTS, PHOTOS, DATABASES AND OTHER IMPORTANT FILES HAVE BEEN ENCRYPTED!
text: Some victims claimed that paying the ransom did not always lead to the files being decrypted.
text: During encryption, Cerber creates three different files (#DECRYPT MY FILES#.txt, #DECRYPT MY FILES#.html, and #DECRYPT MY FILES#.vbs) containing step-by-step payment instructions (never variants use "_READ_THI$_FILE_.hta",
text: If the same encryption key is used for all files, decryption tools use files for which there are both uncorrupted backups and encrypted copies (a known-plaintext attack in the jargon of cryptanalysis.
text: A ransomware infection often starts with someone clicking on what looks like an innocent attachment, and it can be a headache for companies of all sizes if vital files and documents (think spreadsheets and invoices) are suddenly encrypted and inaccessible.
text: Once files are encrypted, ransomware prompts the user for a ransom to be paid within 24 to 48 hours to decrypt the files, or they will be lost forever.
text: Then, once the files are encrypted, the user is asked to install the Tor Browser, enter their address and follow the instructions to make the ransom payment – up to $500 in Bitcoin.
text: More than 600,000 systems were infected between mid-March and August 24, with 5.25 billion files being encrypted.
text: Once all files on the infected system are encrypted, it displays the following image:
text: Once all files on the infected system are encrypted, it displays the following image:
text: If files are encrypted, access to potentially critical or valuable files, including documents, spreadsheets etc would be blocked and the user would get a pop up asking him to pay ransom to get the files decrypted.
text: The payload displays a message informing the user that files have been encrypted, and demands a payment of 400 USD or Euro through an anonymous pre-paid cash voucher (i.e. MoneyPak or Ukash), or an equivalent amount in bitcoin (BTC) within 72 or 100 hours (while starting at 2 BTC, the ransom price has been adjusted down to 0.3 BTC by the operators to reflect the fluctuating value of bitcoin), or else the private key on the server would be destroyed, and "nobody and never [sic] will be able to restore files.
text: Uses a file marker of HERMES to mark or check if a file has been encrypted
text: After the file has been encrypted, a file extension of .RYK is appended to the file.
text: If the drive type is not a CD-ROM, files on the drive are encrypted.
text: The processes and services are stopped to ensure no open handles exist for files that will be encrypted.
text: Your documents, databases and other important files have been encrypted!
text: You documents, photos, databases and other important files have been encrypted!
text: Your documents, photos, databases and other important files have been encrypted!
text: The downside is that if the user tries to check his files just when the window pops in, he will notice that any file has been encrypted (although it is encrypting while is running)
text: files be targeted, but also files ending with .save, .gamesave, or .mysaves will be encrypted as well.
text: Once all the files of about 70 common types have been encrypted, the ransomware displays a ransom message demanding payment in return for the private asymmetric key, which is needed to decrypt the symmetric keys for each encrypted file.
text: The files on this computer have been encrypted.
text: The file has been encrypted and the computer has been locked.
text: Ryuk is used in targeted attacks, where the threat actors make sure that essential files are encrypted so they can ask for large ransom amounts.
text: No personal files are encrypted.
text: Once all the files are encrypted, it posts a message asking for payment to decrypt the files – and threatens to destroy the information if it doesn’t get paid, often with a timer attached to ramp up the pressure.
text: One is written almost politely, claiming that the perpetrators have found a "significant hole in the security systems of your company" which has led to all files being encrypted and that a Bitcoin ransom needs to be paid to retrieve the files.
text: A second note is blunter, simply stating that files have been encrypted and that a ransom must be paid in order to retrieve the files.
text: After the files and data have been successfully encrypted, one or more users will see a message on-screen advising them that their files have been locked.
text: Be advised that even after the ransomware is removed, files will still be encrypted and inaccessible.
text: Before files can be encrypted and then held for ransom, the attacker would have to gain access to the system - and most security professionals already are watching for intrusions and other forms of cyberextortion, he explains.
text: files would be encrypted, but not .JPG files.
text: Screen - This screen lists the files that were encrypted.
text: This screen lists the files that were encrypted.
text: Once all the files are encrypted, it posts a message asking for payment to decrypt the files – and threatens to destroy the information if it doesn't get paid.
text: Once the file is encrypted, all the files are renamed with an extension “.rumba
text: In the past any file that was encrypted would have its file extension changed to CTB or CTB2.
text: Therefore, these files are simply your normal data files that have been encrypted.
text: Be aware that there is no guarantee that your files will ever be decrypted even after paying the ransom.
text: Can systems and files encrypted by LockerGoga be decrypted?
text: If the ransom is paid in time, the decryption key is transferred and the files will be decrypted.
text: Sometimes paying the ransom also works, but there is no guarantee that paying will actually lead to your files being decrypted.
text: It should be noted that every file in that directory will be decrypted even if the file is not encrypted.
text: The best part of this type of ransomware is that the locked files can be decrypted
text: You will get a message in the decryptor UI once the files have been decrypted.