Ransomware is proving to be a growing pain in the butt. However, the upside is most of the writers involved are not good at it. As we have seen with the Cryzip trojan where the password was plain text. One of the more recent additions to this rogues gallery, Archiveus, was poorly programmed and allowed for an easily recovered password.
This virus swaps files found in the “My Documents” folder on Windows with a single file protected by a 30-digit password. Victims are only told the password if they buy drugs from one of three online pharmacies.
If you happened to have been infected with this annoyance the password to recover your files is “mf2lro8sw03ufvnsq034jfowr18f3cszc20vmw”.
Tags: Ransomware, Ransom, Virus, Malware, Trojan, Cryzip, Password
