RaaS(Ransom-ware as a Service)
Ransomware as a Service is a ransomware very similar to Tox. Ransomware is a type of virus which will infect target computer, encrypts their files and will not decrypt until victim's will not a pay an amount of Money(Ransomware) most often in Bitcoins.
The company McAfee has highlighted a service offered on the Tor network: Tox is as a site offering the ransomware as a service.
it is created for hackers to easily design encrypting ransomware payloads to distrube from their botnets.
Hackers can create his/her own Ransomware with in Few steps on Tox Website.
TOX
It is a tool kit which is designed for nontech users to spread this ransomware.
The developers of this software makes money by taking a 20% of any successful social engineer's attack.
Steps to Create your own Ransomware
- Create an account on tox website without any email address and other identifiable information.
- A user then types in the ransom amount they want to ask for, an
additional note such as the name of the target, and add captcha and click “Create”.
How to Identify these types of Ransomwares?
These type of Ransomwares generally come in the email Campaigns through Social engineering attacks.
You can see it in your Emails and genrally they uses fake word icons and having .scr extension.This file is around a size of 2 MB.
Once a Victims open this .scr file provided in an Email, The paylod will encrypt all the data on their system and decrypts only when if a Bitcoin payment is made.
How To Get rid of and Protect themselves from this Ransomware?
1. Don't fell in to these Kind of Social Engineering attacks. Before Running the attachment check for the Extensions first(is it a .scr, .exe).
2. Backup Your Data. if you have unfortunately executed it and having your Data Backup. You are safe from paying Ransom.
