If you are a victim of Cryptolocker ransomware and pay the fee to access your data, this doesn’t mean that your system is safe from further attacks.
However it is important to remember that there is no guarantee that the offender will release your data and unfortunately you cannot fight this. The offenders will usually restore your data back to its original format once you have paid the ransom, as they realise that people would stop paying if they found out it did not do anything. Unfortunately, if you are a victim of ransomware and you do not have a back-up of your data, then you may have no choice but to pay the ransom fee.
If this is not received by (a certain date), this fee will double.” It can even have a countdown to when payment is due. As mentioned, once your computer is infected you will see a screen that will have something similar to: “to decrypt your files, you must pay a ransom few of $x. Most of the time, it will look suspicious so we know not to open it however the offenders are getting more creative to encourage us to click. an email sent to accounts with ‘invoice’ or similar in the subject. This email is usually targeted at the business departments that will open them i.e. How does your computer get infect by ransomware?Īn email is the usual method of delivery for ransomware viruses. However the more refined versions including Cryptolocker do encrypt your data and can do this in such a way that will be impossible to break without paying the fee. Many ransomware emails are just a con trying to catch you off guard which do not actually encrypt your files. Once the data is encrypted, you are sent a ‘note’ stating that you must pay the ‘ransom’ fee to decrypt your data. Ransomware is essentially online extortion that occurs when your computer is infected with a virus that encrypts your data.
In fact, a US hospital has recently had to a pay a ransom of $17,000 to access its data again after it was infected with ransomware. Cryptolocker ransomware is unfortunately becoming more common and we are beginning to encounter it much more often.
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