If your operating system has been infected with Serpent Ransomware, your personal files must have been encrypted already. This infection does not waste time, and the moment it is executed, the encryption process begins. The distribution of this ransomware is not surprising because it is spread exactly like CryptoKill Ransomware, Pabluk Locker Ransomware, and many other threats alike that we have reported before. It all comes back to spam emails. Your email address could have been extracted a long time ago using one of the many scams, such as fake prize giveaways or surveys. Once the distributor of the ransomware has a list of emails, it initiates a mass spam email attack where different email addresses are sent the same misleading message with the launcher attached to it. By the looks of it, it appears that the main target of this particular threat are users in Denmark, as they are sent the same corrupted spam email with the subject line “Sidste påmindelse for udestående faktura [number].” If you have opened it, as well as the document attached to it, it is most likely that you now need to remove Serpent ransomware. Read more »
