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.