Thanatos Ransomware
It’s a new computer virus named ‘Thanatos’, which is distributed through malvertisements, spam emails with malicious attachments and file types, etc. This is very similar to most famous computer virus that is ILOVEYOU computer virus.
The most complicated part is to decrypt the data been encrypted by this ransomware. This is because, it generates different keys every time for encryption and does not save these keys anywhere making it difficult to recover.
After this, it drops payload in user’s system in form of .exe file or .txt file, which is set for auto run and opens every time the system is restarted. This payload starts encrypting files and add ‘.thanatos’ extension to encrypted files. Soon, user receives a ransom pay message on its system.
– Disable macros and Activex when using MS Office products.
– Keep a regular backup of data and files.
– Update operating system and applications.
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