Trending Ransomware attacks (Coot)

What is Ransomware?

• Ransomware is a malicious program which will encrypt your data and make a barrier between you and your files
• After successful implementation of ransomware on your network or your machine it will stating encrypting the data with advance level of encryption which is really difficult to crack
• Now after encryption you have to purchase a tool called "Cypter" tool from attack and related decryption key too
• In some cases it is possible to retried the data without paying ransom to bad guy.

What is Coot Ransomware attack?

• From ending of July 2020 the number of coot ransomware is increasing frequently.
• coot is from "DJVU" family of ransomware.
  
• In this type of attack the file will be encrypted with some high level encryption techniques and the file extension will be ".coot" at the end of the file.
• Suppose there is a file on your machine called "a.txt" than the encrypted file will be "a.txt.coot"
  
• Also you can see the other file called "_readme.txt" on your machine too.
• Generally the bad guy ask around 490 $ for decryption.
• The picture belows shows how readme,txt file looks like.
  
• Some of the website offers cryptor tools for this type of malware also.
• One of the tool is Grid-Soft-antimalware.