My computer have just been hacked for BITCOIN ransom!

[CryptoBjorn]

Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.

Whay do you think?

If all the important files have been backed up, don't pay those assholes.
This will only encourage them to do this more.

I'd recommend you to upload a single file online and create a new thread here, so that people can help you decrypt them.
Just a tip
@Cryptoheadd

That's an excellent idea. In stead of paying hackers we should all work together and put these guys to an halt. Hackers are just a small group, we as an community can an should fight back.
Your idea is brilliant. I am sure some skilled people are willing to user their skill for doing some good...

In stead of extorting others.

[DimensionZ]

I think you ought not let your brother use your computer anymore.   Not sure how that hacking works--did they steal files or bitcoin?

I think ransomware is when your system's hard drive gets encrypted by a malicious program or script and next time upon boot you can't get access to any of your files. Then a window pops up that tells you that the whole computer is locked down and you need to send a predetermined amount of Bitcoins to the hackers' wallet address. Then they will release a decryption key so that you will be able to get back your stuff which is being held for ransom on your own machine thus the name ransomware. Honestly I don't know if any of your stuff is uploaded to the hackers before the encryption commences but it won't be a surprise if it is when they can simply double dip by doing this.

[calkob]

Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.

Whay do you think?

Why is bitcoin to blame, you just said it was your brothers fault, if they hadnt used bitcoin as payment it would have been some other form of payment..... think before you spout stupid things....

[mayax]

Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.

Whay do you think?

Why is bitcoin to blame, you just said it was your brothers fault, if they hadnt used bitcoin as payment it would have been some other form of payment..... think before you spout stupid things....

other form of payment  LIKE? Do not name other e-currency....

[jmpFCE2]

Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.

Whay do you think?

haha ha newb fucker watched too many pron sites with barebacking  browsing...

[damiano]

Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.

Whay do you think?

I heard of this years ago actually but at the time it was targeting the police and business owners. Needless to say they used to pay up to get their files back/unecrypted.

Now they're moving on to average joe, that was always going to happen I guess.

That is not a bad image for BTC it is more a bad image for the guys who are downloading crap on their machines, usually porn lol

It also used to be done with other payment methods like UKASH.

You're "important files now belong to them so hope they're not that important because they will find something to do with it that you can be sure of.

Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.

Whay do you think?

haha ha newb fucker watched too many pron sites with barebacking  browsing...

 

  yep

[fortunecrypto]

Have heard that kind of hacking software before, which encrypted all files on my computer, and when my brother have been using the computer (or course carelessly), it is hacked and they demand a 1.2BTC ransom... These are just one more bad news of BTC, and even make my family members have even worse image on bitcoin... And we decided not to pay the coins to the hacker as all important files have been backed up.

Whay do you think?

It will benefit the community if you can name that software and post the link here so we will know.Mnay people are using this kind of software they maybe that software now,anyway if there is a back up then there are no more reason to pay a ransom,you can also report this to the authority,they might trace who this guys are ..

[prettybuds]

This hasn't happened to myself but a friend of mine and yeah, it does really suck as much as it sounds like.

[BitcoinNewsMagazine]

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ is one of several good sites to browse to stay up to date on malware threats and defense.

At http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/search/?keyword=malwarebytes they have downloads for two Malwarebytes products that you can layer with your existing security programs. They have a beta of Malwarebytes Anti-Ransomware (free) and also free Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit that are designed to work together. You are probably already familiar with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware.

I also like HitmanPro very much. It is a paid program but they give you a thirty day free trial. It was a big help when I had to help a friend scrub an infected computer.

Malware Tips also has a good guide to using advanced programs in safe mode.

[Bannedseller]

First of all, thanks to all of your reply.

Fortunately, we have lost only unimportant files thanks to backups, and those unimportant files can be re-made.

We have used Windows 7 on our computer, and have all Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox installed. I use Google Chrome as my main browser but my brother was using Internet Explorer...

I don't know what the ransomware was, my brother said that he have been doing a project, searching for sites and that's probably one of those sites having malicious codes (or hacked). They're all not porn-related.

They have only locked some common file format, like DOCX, PDF, JPG. They don't lock EXE programs, because doing this may locked any bitcoins we have (but we don't have Bitcoin Core). On my computer there's only few altcoins installed, naming Ambercoin, CAPTcoin and Yovicoin.

Yes they want BTC just because of the anonymity feature provided by it. They have stated the they wanted 500 USD, but in bitcoins (according to the price of $420/BTC). The price information of them is outdated because 1 bitcoin worth ~$460 now!

I can't name the ransomware, they say that they've encrypted the files via Internet. I can't upload a file here, as I'm not using my computer now. Also we're going to format all hard disks (thanks to backups) and not keeping all the lost unimportant files.

[mookid]

First of all, thanks to all of your reply.

Fortunately, we have lost only unimportant files thanks to backups, and those unimportant files can be re-made.

We have used Windows 7 on our computer, and have all Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox installed. I use Google Chrome as my main browser but my brother was using Internet Explorer...

I don't know what the ransomware was, my brother said that he have been doing a project, searching for sites and that's probably one of those sites having malicious codes (or hacked). They're all not porn-related.

They have only locked some common file format, like DOCX, PDF, JPG. They don't lock EXE programs, because doing this may locked any bitcoins we have (but we don't have Bitcoin Core). On my computer there's only few altcoins installed, naming Ambercoin, CAPTcoin and Yovicoin.

Yes they want BTC just because of the anonymity feature provided by it. They have stated the they wanted 500 USD, but in bitcoins (according to the price of $420/BTC). The price information of them is outdated because 1 bitcoin worth ~$460 now!

I can't name the ransomware, they say that they've encrypted the files via Internet. I can't upload a file here, as I'm not using my computer now. Also we're going to format all hard disks (thanks to backups) and not keeping all the lost unimportant files.

Good to hear that, unfortunately, many people are losing important data because of ransomware, companies are also loosing money because of this.
A good recommendation is to always have in the cloud or offline backups of important files. Common sense is one of the best anti-virus there is.

[Bannedseller]

Finally found a method to decrypt my files and problem solved. No BTC was paid. Case closed