UltraLocker Ransomware

The UltraLocker Ransomware is a Trojan that prevents you from using your files by locking them with an encryption cipher. Symptoms of its attacks are recognizable as pop-up ransom messages asking for money to unlock your files, as well as consistent filename changes. Malware researchers always recommend keeping remote backups to counteract the effects of threats of this type, in addition to any anti-malware protection for blocking or removing the UltraLocker Ransomware when relevant.

Easy-Click Ransoms for Nothing Back

As ease of use and a user-friendly UI become increasingly important aspects of an increasingly online world, con artists also are doing their part in streamlining their Trojan campaigns' usability. The use of dedicated Web domains and pop-up interfaces for consolidating money through extortion is visible with file-encrypting Trojans especially, such as the UltraLocker Ransomware. Malware analysts tie the UltraLocker Ransomware to the same underlying family as the Lomix Ransomware, making this threat either an update or a case of reused code.

The UltraLocker Ransomware uses a conventional AES-RSA encryption standard for enciphering and blocking any files on the PCs it infects. The attack encodes the file data, initially, with a 256-bit AES algorithm, and uses the RSA encoding for blocking any third-party decoding solutions. Once they're encoded, the associated data is unreadable by any compatible software, although malware experts aren't finding cases of the UltraLocker Ransomware's configuration targeting the operating system.

The UltraLocker Ransomware's revenue model demands extracting money from its victims through selling its decryption solution back to them. It includes a built-in pop-up interface for loading a Bitcoin-purchasing portal, simple instructions on how to transfer the currency, and a theoretical file decryptor. The UltraLocker Ransomware asks for its ransom payment as an expression of the USD currency, however, indicating potential inexperience on the part of its developer, as well as a clear sign of the intended geographical scope of its attack campaign.

Malware experts also note that the UltraLocker Ransomware's ransom demands are much higher than most, similar file-encoding Trojans, excepting those targeting high-value business entities explicitly.

Getting Ultra-Reliable Protection from an the UltraLocker Ransomware Attack

You can determine which files the UltraLocker Ransomware locks by looking at its name changes, which insert the '.locked' extension (a popular choice among different file-encrypting Trojans) into the filenames. Unlike most threats of its kind, the UltraLocker Ransomware uses a different format of name modification that inserts the change before the default extension, instead of at the end. Currently, malware experts find no viable decryption options besides taking the risk of paying the ransom, which is discouraged.

Although the UltraLocker Ransomware can encrypt local content, removing the UltraLocker Ransomware with any anti-malware application and restoring your files from the most recent backup can give you a straightforward way of recovering all of your data freely. For maximum security, malware researchers recommend storing at least one backup on a detachable hard drive or cloud server. Decryption services may be unavailable or unreliable, even with widely-circulated and thoroughly-researched Trojans of the UltraLocker Ransomware's classification.

The UltraLocker Ransomware and other revisions of the CryptoWire Ransomware can profit only as long as people continue refusing to protect their media with data redundancy techniques relatively simple. When one considers the expense of the UltraLocker Ransomware's ransom, even the cost of premium backup software suites becomes less intimidating than one might think.