Anonymous Arabs Ransomware

The Anonymous arabs virus belongs to the ransomware type of malicious agent. Harmful software of such sort encrypts all the data on your PC (photos, documents, excel tables, audio files, videos, etc) and adds its own extension to every file, creating the read_mt.txt files in each folder containing encrypted files.

What is known about the Anonymous arabs virus?

Anonymous arabs will add its specific .encrypt extension to the name of every encrypted file. For example, an image named “photo.jpg” will be changed to “photo.jpg.encrypt”. In the same manner, the Excel sheet with the name “table.xlsx” will be renamed to “table.xlsx.encrypt”, and so forth.

In each directory containing the encoded files, a read_mt.txt text document will be created. It is a ransom money note. Therein you can find information about the ways of paying the ransom and some other remarks. The ransom note usually contains instructions on how to purchase the decryption tool from the racketeers. That is how they do it.

Anonymous arabs Overview:

The read_mt.txt document coming in package with the Anonymous arabs malware states the following:

All your files have been encrypted by Anonymous Arabs
Your computer has been infected with ransomware. Your files have been encrypted and you won\'t
Be able to decrypt it without our help. What can I do to recover my files? You can purchase our software
Decryption software, this software will allow you to recover all your data and remove files
Ransomware from your computer. The price of the program is $1500. Payment can only be made with Bitcoin Cash
How do I pay, where can I get Bitcoin?
Buying Bitcoin varies from country to country, and it\'s best to do a quick Google search
Learn how to buy Bitcoin.
It is best to use the TrustWallet wallet to be able to send money to us
Payment Information Amount: 3.58 Bitcoin Cash
Bitcoin Cash address in TrustWilt wallet: qrzm8vrzg93qpdry8t6dxdlcxfqcrwjr8yvv9dx5c3

In the image below, you can see what a directory with files encrypted by the Anonymous arabs looks like. Each filename has the “.encrypt” extension appended to it.

How did Anonymous arabs ransomware end up on my PC?

There is a huge number of possible ways of ransomware infiltration.

Nowadays, there are three most exploited methods for criminals to have ransomware settled in your digital environment. These are email spam, Trojan introduction and peer file transfer.

• Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan horse model. A Trojan is a program that gets into your PC disguised as something legal. For example, you download an installer of some program you need or an update for some program. However, what is unboxed turns out to be a harmful program that encrypts your data. Since the update package can have any title and any icon, you have to make sure that you can trust the source of the files you’re downloading. The best thing is to trust the software companies’ official websites.
• As for the peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent or eMule, the danger is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Internet. You can never know what you download until you get it. Our suggestion is that you use trustworthy websites. Also, it is a good idea to scan the folder containing the downloaded files with the anti-malware utility as soon as the downloading is done.

How to remove ransomware?

It is crucial to inform you that besides encrypting your files, the Anonymous arabs virus will most likely deploy Vidar Stealer on your computer to get access to credentials to various accounts (including cryptocurrency wallets). The mentioned spyware can extract your credentials from your browser’s auto-filling cardfile.

How do I avoid ransomware injection?

Anonymous arabs ransomware doesn’t have a endless power, so as any similar malware.

You can defend your system from ransomware attack taking three easy steps:

• Ignore any letters from unknown mailers with strange addresses, or with content that has likely no connection to something you are expecting (can you win in a lottery without participating in it?). If the email subject is more or less something you are expecting, check all elements of the suspicious letter with caution. A fake letter will always contain mistakes.
• Never use cracked or unknown programs. Trojans are often distributed as an element of cracked software, possibly as a “patch” preventing the license check. But untrusted programs are difficult to distinguish from reliable software, as trojans sometimes have the functionality you need. You can try to find information on this program on the anti-malware forums, but the optimal way is not to use such programs at all.

Frequently Asked Questions

🤔 How can I open “.encrypt” files?Can I somehow access “.encrypt” files?

There’s no way to do it, unless the files “.encrypt” files are decrypted.

🤔 I really need to decrypt those “.encrypt” files ASAP. How can I do that?

If the “.encrypt” files contain some really important information, then you probably have them backed up. If not, there is still a function of System Restore but it needs a Restore Point to be previously saved. There are other ways to beat ransomware, but they take time.

🤔 What should I do if the Anonymous arabs virus has blocked my PC and I can’t get the activation code.

🤔 What could help the situation right now?

Some of the encrypted data can be found elsewhere.

• If you exchanged your critical files via email, you could still download them from your online mailbox.
• You might have shared images or videos with your friends or family members. Simply ask them to send those pictures back to you.
• If you have initially got any of your files from the Internet, you can try doing it again.
• Your messengers, social networks pages, and cloud disks might have all those files too.
• Maybe you still have the needed files on your old computer, a portable device, phone, memory stick, etc.

HINT: You can employ data recovery utilities¹ to get your lost data back since ransomware arrests the copies of your files, removing the original ones. In the video below, you can see how to recover your files with PhotoRec, but remember: you can do it only after you remove the ransomware itself with an anti-malware program.

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