Wednesday, March 8, 2017

What is FabSysCrypto (.Locked) Ransomware?

FabSysCrypto (.Locked) Ransomware is a system malware that has been developed by the cyber criminals to make profit from the system users in a extortion form. It locks the user's files and demand ransom money from the victim's to provide the decryption key to them to open it.

Initial information on FabSysCrypto (.Locked) Ransomware reported by the experts
FabSysCrypto (.Locked) Ransomware is a file encrypting malware. It seems like the very infamous Locky Ransomware. It avoids you to open your stored file of the system. It gained access of your system through spam emails attachments while you download infected files on your system and run a malicious codes on it. It is a vicious program that has been programmed by the nasty cyber criminals to make profit from illegal ways by damaging files and system of innocent PC users. Some of the security researchers said that it belongs to the family of Hidden Tear Project, which is a common Crypto malware that drops a malicious file of FabSysCrypto.exe on the victims device. It auto executes on their PC and start searching the data for encryption. It configures all your entire system and collect all the files and data containers to follow the encryption.

FabSysCrypto (.Locked) Ransomware after following successful encryption, it appends a new ".locked" file extension with the all enciphered files. Then after it sends a ransom note on the victim's system and ask to pay the ransom of money about $640 (0.5 BTC) to recover the encoded filed by purchasing a decryption tool after the payment to the hackers. It only accept payments in Bitcoin wallets because they do not want to reveal their identity and it is a safe process also. The user have not any options instead to pay the ransom but this is not the right solution. You should use a credible anti-malware on the system and remove FabSysCrypto (.Locked) Ransomware permanently and then run the backup to regain your files back.

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