Booyah Ransomware
Booyah Ransomware is a severely malicious computer virus made to encrypt your files with weird extensions such as .Crypted, .remind, .xrtn, .1999 and ccc. This virus usually enters Windows systems through spam email attachments and freeware installers. For instance, when you open an attachments of spam email which allegedly is a payment invoice for your payment on EBay, Booyah Ransomware will invade your computer without your knowledge. Its purpose is to force you to pay a ransom fee to get the so-called decryption key which can recover your infected files. Here is the notification from the virus after it invades your system:
Hi. Your files are now encrypted. I have the key to decrypt them back.
I will give you a decrypter if you pay me. If you pay me today, the price is only 1 bitcoin.
If you pay me tomorrow, you will have to pay 2 bitcoins. If you pay me one week later the price
will be 7 bitcoins and so on. So, hurry up.
According to researches from our team, Booyah Ransomware is capable of encrypting almost all major files on the infected machine, such as photos, videos, MS Office files, .pdf, and .txt extension files. Once it made it, it left a TXT file or BMP file to tell you what have happened to you files and what you should do to get your files back, that is to pay around $500 to buy the description key. It also warns that your files will be lost forever if you do not pay within 24 hours or 48 hours. This is the typical way that hacker makes money, to encrypt files and scare you to send the random money. Continue reading