At the core of it, ransomware attack is intended to play out like any ransom activity where perpetrators scare victims into paying the extortion money. In cryptovirological attacks, the perpetrators make your data ‘hostage’ and force you to pay them in order to ‘free’ it.
In the beginning, when ransomware was still new on the block, the affected users used to pay the perpetrators to recover their encrypted files. With more robust and effective ransomware removal measures in place, many victims now refuse to budge to the demands of ransomware operators.
To get back the element of a scare in ransomware activities, some cybercriminals has introduced a new feature to their cryptovirological strain that doesn’t only encrypt the files on the affected device but also deletes the locked down files one by one. This scare tactic was effectively used by the developers of Jigsaw ransomware. Now, a ransomware goes with the name BitKangoroo is employing the same technique to ensure the affected victims pay them to get back their files instead of employing ransomware removal services.
BitKangoroo is developed to delete a single encrypted file after every 60 minutes. This feature is used to provoke the sense of time urgency in victims in the context of ransom payment. Ruthlessness of BitKangoroo doesn’t end here because if you try to recover your files through trial-and-error method by putting different decryption keys, then it will delete all the encrypted files at the first incorrect iteration.
Victims not aware of ransomware removal measures and don’t have any backup of their locked down files, they might yield to the ransom demands of the attackers. But it should be kept in mind that the payment of ransom doesn’t guarantee the restoration of encrypted files. There have been cases where people couldn’t get their files back even after the payment of ransom due to poorly-written cryptographic codes destroying the encrypted files permanently.
But there is no need to worry if you are constantly updating your data backups. In addition, professional ransomware removal services can help you in retrieving the data encrypted by BitKangoroo.
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