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If you are not yet sure if SySS Ransomware is the infection that encrypted your personal files and made them unreadable, you should look at the names of your files. If this is the threat that is responsible for the attack, you should find the “.id-***.[syspentest@aol.com].SySS” (*** represent unique characters) extension attached. You are free to remove this extension, but that is not something that will help you restore your files. Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers are not sure you can restore your files at all, and if you find tools that claim to be capable of restoring files affected by malware, you have to be careful. That being said, this particular threat comes from the Crysis Ransomware/Dharma Ransomware family, and free decryptors have been developed by malware experts. If you are going to use third-party tools, these are the ones you should look into first. Unfortunately, nothing can guarantee full decryption, and your files will not be restored even if you delete SySS Ransomware quickly. Read more »

Like other ransomware applications, ADHUBLLKA Ransomware could enter your system if you interact with unreliable files from the Internet. The malware does not create any data upon entering a system. Instead, it should locate its targeted files and start encrypting them to take them as hostages. As a result, most of your personal files, such as pictures and documents, should become unreadable. After this process is complete, the malicious application ought to display a ransom note, which should ask you to email the malware’s developers and pay a ransom in exchange for decryption tools. The problem is that you might never receive the promised tools. Thus, we advise you to be careful and to learn more about this threat before you decide what to do. After reading our article, we recommend checking our removal instructions too, as they may help you delete ADHUBLLKA Ransomware manually. Read more »

BitPyLock Ransomware is a malicious application that can sneak in and out without you noticing anything. It should reveal its presence only after encrypting your files with a robust encryption algorithm. By the time the encryption process is over, all locations containing affected files should contain an HTML file with instructions on how to pay a ransom. In exchange, hackers should offer their decryption tools. The scariest part is that the note might say that it is impossible to restore files from backup because the malware erased it. However, this might be untrue. We explain more about this malicious application further in this article, and if you want to learn how you could erase BitPyLock Ransomware too, you should check the removal instructions available below. Read more »

Bitsran is a malicious infection that doesn’t work alone. We have to understand that such Trojans are often just malware components that tell us about an onset of a far more dangerous infection. As far as we know, this Trojan component is part of the Hermes Ransomware infection, and it might be the first step in this entire attack. It is essential to detect and remove Bitsran before it manages to launch the file-encrypting infection. Although it is possible to do that manually, we would strongly recommend using an automated antispyware tool that would help you terminate all the malware components automatically. Read more »

Dudell is a malware component that allows cyber crooks to infect multiple systems all over the world. Whenever we deal with such infections, we have to understand that they often work in tandem with several other threats. Dudell is categorized as a Trojan infection, and so it means that users probably do not realize they have been infected with it until it is a bit too late to do anything about it.

Hence, prevention is extremely important when it comes to such infections. If you want to remove Dudell, you have to perform regular system scans with reliable antispyware tools, so that you would locate and terminate this infection immediately. Read more »

While we usually talk about one specific infection, Anchor happens to be a group of Trojan infections that target multiple systems worldwide. There have been several waves of this infection recorded, and users are always encouraged to learn more about Trojan distribution, so that they could avoid similar intruders in the future.

What’s more, we would like to point out that removing Anchor manually could be quite challenging. Therefore, it would be recommended to invest in a licensed security application that would terminate everything related to Anchor at once. After all, automatic malware removal is the fastest and the most efficient option you have. Read more »

The end and the beginning of a year is always a good season for spammers and cyber crooks. There are so many ways to slither into target systems because of year-end communication between various companies and organizations. The people behind the Lampion Trojan infection seem to have caught up on that. This malicious infection targets users in Portugal by masquerading as an official email from the Portuguese Government Finance & Tax.

There are several stages of this infection, but the technical story aside, the most important thing for users is to remove Lampion and to avoid similar intruders again. Hence, we shall look at those two aspects in our description. Read more »

PhobosImposter Ransomware is a threat that adds the .phobos extension to each file that it enciphers. The malicious application uses a strong encryption algorithm, which is why files that get affected become unusable unless a victim has a decryption tool. Sadly, usually, decryption tools cannot be downloaded from the Internet. That is because hackers are often the only ones who have such tools, and they provide them only to those who pay a ransom. Cybercriminals behind PhobosImposter Ransomware are not an exception as they claim they want to receive a payment in Bitcoins in the malware’s displayed ransom note. Before deciding what to do, we encourage you to find out more about this malicious application, which you can do if you read the rest of our article. If you decide you wish to erase PhobosImposter Ransomware, we recommend checking our removal instructions that you can find at the end of the text. Read more »

BDDY Ransomware belongs to the Matrix Ransomware family. It encrypts various files that could be valuable and then shows warning messages that urge victims to contact the malware’s developers and pay for decryption tools. Hackers might sound convincing in their messages, but keep in mind that there are no guarantees that they will deliver what they promise even if you do what is told. Naturally, if you do not think you can risk losing your money in vain, we advise not to put up with any demands. If you have backup copies, you can replace encrypted files with them as soon as you erase BDDY Ransomware, and your computer becomes malware-free again. To learn how to delete the malicious application manually, you should check the instructions located below this text. Of course, if the process seems too challenging, you should not hesitate to leave this task to a legitimate antimalware tool of your choice. Read more »

If you are not cautious, you run the risk of facing Prometey Ransomware, a dangerous infection that can seamlessly encrypt all of your personal files. During the process of encryption, the data of the affected files is changed, and that ensures that you can no longer read them in a normal manner. A decryptor is needed for that. Unfortunately, you cannot download just any decryptor to assist you because the attackers behind this malware are using a unique encryptor, and it has not been deciphered yet. It is possible that no one will be able to decipher it at all. This is good news for the attackers behind the threat because if you cannot decrypt the files yourself, and if you do not have copies that could be used to replace the corrupted files, you might give in to their demands. Hopefully, you have not done that yet. To learn more about the infection and its removal, please continue reading, and note that if you need assistance deleting Prometey Ransomware, you can always post a comment below. Read more »