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LOVE Ransomware

Posted: April 16, 2019

The LOVE Ransomware is a variant of the 'seeyoubro@tutanota.com' Ransomware, a file-locking Trojan. The attacks of these threats will stop your files from opening by encrypting them, although they shouldn't damage Windows. You can identify these threats by the extensions they add, as well as their ransom notes, and use anti-malware products for removing the LOVE Ransomware safely to keep further encryption from taking place.

A Trojan's Insincere Expression of Emotion

A minor variation of the already-copy-pasted 'seeyoubro@tutanota.com' Ransomware is being seen, with new, internal marker data, but the same, old types of attacks against your files. The LOVE Ransomware is another version of the Dharma Ransomware, which is a smaller segment of the overarching Crysis Ransomware family, most noted for its success in the Ransomware-as-a-Service industry. Whether different threat actors from this version of the Trojan are administrating the LOVE Ransomware than 'seeyoubro@tutanota.com' Ransomware, malware researchers are unsure.

The marker that the LOVE Ransomware implants in the internal data of each file is less noteworthy than the encryption that the family's code provides, which securely 'locks' files or stops them from opening, with an AES and RSA encryption method. Users can find these non-functional files through searching for the 'LOVE' extension that the LOVE Ransomware shares with its immediate predecessor. Formats that malware researchers place at risk of locking include most kinds of text documents, pictures, video, sound, databases, AutoCAD output, and archives, among many others.

The LOVE Ransomware, like other versions of its family, creates ransom notes for giving its victims an extortion-based way of getting their files repaired. Malware researchers only can verify the Notepad TXT and HTML formats with e-mail addresses for negotiating without telling victims a price. The withholding of cost is a choice that some threat actors prefer for giving additional leverage over 'bargaining' with users for their files, which they may not unlock even after payment.

Spurning the Sentiments of a LOVE Ransomware Campaign

The LOVE Ransomware is threatening, not only to the immediately infected PC but to other network-connected devices and removable drives. The LOVE Ransomware and various Dharma Ransomware variants (for comparison, see: the '.aqva File Extension' Ransomware, the 'carcinoma24@aol.com' Ransomware, 'sebekgrime@tutanota.com' Ransomware and the 'suppfirecrypt@qq.com' Ransomware) don't copy themselves like worms or self-reproduce. However, they can encrypt files that aren't on the same PC that harbors their installation if there's no password protection, privilege restrictions, or other security considerations in the way.

Users should do their best to separate compromised systems from removable devices or network-shared systems, as well as disable their internet connections temporarily. The LOVE Ransomware should include no meaningful counter-defenses against most security products, besides the possibility of its disabling features like the Registry Editor or the Task Manager. Have anti-malware software analyze your system thoroughly while removing the LOVE Ransomware, whose presence could be a symptom of other threats.

While some criminals have gotten the memo about making 'love, not war,' the LOVE Ransomware is a cruelly ironic juxtaposition of superficiality and sentiment. Like the 'seeyoubro@tutanota.com' Ransomware, which it so closely resembles, the LOVE Ransomware is an expression of greed via technology.

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