Victims will be extorted a ransom to decrypt the affected files, or they will be unable to open the affect files ever again. A simple yet effective method of mitigating the threat of ransomware is to ensure that you always have backups with versioning. Locker is a file-encrypting ransomware (CryptoLocker, CTB Locker, TeslaCrypt, and others) that encrypts files found on local drives, removable drives, mapped network drives, and even Dropbox mappings. This also becomes a rising threat against both business and home users that targets computers and network-based devices. Wide-ranging attacks involving encryption-based ransomware (also known as locker) began to increase through Trojans in the past few years. many ways to take out the data.Ĭould a ransomware program simply be truecrypt (or any other free / open source encrypting software) recompiled and modified after installing to do any number of things with any kind of storage (formatted or unformatted) found connected to a system? I would say pretty much once the program gets elevated privilege, be it windows or linux.Ransomware is a cryptovirology attack carried out using covertly installed malware that encrypts the victim’s files and then requests a ransom payment in return for the decryption key that is needed to recover the encrypted files. Also wouldn't need to actually encrypt a volume then say you did and demand ransom, you could just change/reformat the partition and simply overwrite then demand ransom (not like there's a requirement for ransomware to be honest).
One could just write ransomware to try to encrypt any accessible volume whether formatted or not. Therefore a programmer writing ransomware would conceivably have access to all the info needed (truecrypt source) to write such a program to know everything truecrypt can do and has done on your computer. Truecrypt was free, I do not know at the moment if it was open source but let's assume that it was. So neglect the word ransomware for a sec, and realize it is software program and it will do or attempt to do whatever the programmer wrote it to do.
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