BLACK HUNT 2.0 Ransomware 🔐 [email protected] (.HUNT2 File)

The Black hunt 2.0 virus belongs to the ransomware type of malicious agent. Ransomware of this type encrypts all user’s data on the PC (photos, documents, excel sheets, audio files, videos, etc) and appends its specific extension to every file, creating the #BlackHunt_ReadMe.txt text files in each directory which contains the encrypted files.

What is known about the Black hunt 2.0 virus?

The renaming will be done according to this pattern: .Hunt2. In the process of encryption, a file named, for instance, “report.docx” will be changed to “report.docx.[H5uuEUou7Ulql9eQ].[[email protected]].Hunt2”.

In each directory that contains the encoded files, a #BlackHunt_ReadMe.txt text file will be found. It is a ransom money memo. Therein you can find information on the ways of contacting the racketeers and some other remarks. The ransom note usually contains a description of how to purchase the decryption tool from the ransomware developers. You can obtain this decrypting software after contacting [email protected], [email protected], @tokyosupp (Telegram) via email. That is pretty much the scheme of the felony.

Black hunt 2.0 Overview:

The #BlackHunt_ReadMe.txt document accompanying the Black hunt 2.0 ransomware provides the following dispiriting information:

As you can see we have penetrated your whole network due some critical network insecurities
All of your files such as documents, dbs and... Are encrypted and we have uploaded many important data from your machines,
and believe we us we know what should we collect.


However you can get your files back and make sure your data is safe from leaking by contacting us using following details :


Primary email :[email protected]


Secondary email(backup email in case we didn\'t answer you in 24h) :[email protected] , TELEGRAM : @tokyosupp

 

Your machine Id : -
use this as the title of your email


(Remember, if we don\'t hear from you for a while, we will start leaking data)

In the screenshot below, you can see what a directory with files encrypted by the Black hunt 2.0 looks like. Each filename has the “.Hunt2” extension added to it.

How did my computer get infected with Black hunt 2.0 ransomware?

There are plenty of possible ways of ransomware injection.

Nowadays, there are three most popular methods for evil-doers to have ransomware settled in your digital environment. These are email spam, Trojan injection and peer-to-peer networks.

If you access your mailbox and see letters that look just like notifications from utility services companies, postal agencies like FedEx, web-access providers, and whatnot, but whose “from” field is unknown to you, be wary of opening those emails. They are most likely to have a malware item attached to them. Thus it is even more dangerous to open any attachments that come with emails like these.

Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan horse model. A Trojan is an object that gets into your machine pretending to be something else. Imagine, you download an installer for some program you need or an update for some service. But what is unpacked reveals itself a harmful agent that encodes your data. As the update package can have any title and any icon, you have to make sure that you can trust the resource of the files you’re downloading. The optimal way is to use the software companies’ official websites.

As for the peer networks like BitTorrent or eMule, the threat is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Internet. You can never guess what you download until you get it. Our suggestion is that you use trustworthy websites. Also, it is reasonable to scan the folder containing the downloaded files with the antivirus as soon as the downloading is finished.

How to remove ransomware?

It is crucial to inform you that besides encrypting your files, the Black hunt 2.0 virus will probably deploy Vidar Stealer on your PC to get access to credentials to different accounts (including cryptocurrency wallets). That program can extract your logins and passwords from your browser’s auto-filling data.

How do I avert ransomware infection?

Black hunt 2.0 ransomware has no superpower, neither does any similar malware.

You can armour your PC from ransomware attack in three easy steps:

• Never open any letters from unknown senders with unknown addresses, or with content that has likely no connection to something you are expecting (how can you win in a lottery without participating in it?). If the email subject is likely something you are expecting, check all elements of the questionable letter carefully. A hoax email will always have mistakes.
• Do not use cracked or untrusted programs. Trojan viruses are often spreaded as an element of cracked software, possibly as a “patch” preventing the license check. But untrusted programs are very hard to distinguish from reliable ones, as trojans may also have the functionality you need. You can try to find information on this program on the anti-malware forums, but the best way is not to use such software.

FAQ

🤔 Is it possible to open “.Hunt2” files?

Negative. That is why ransomware is so frustrating. Until you decode the “.Hunt2” files you will not be able to access them.

🤔 The encrypted files are very important to me. How can I decrypt them quickly?

Hopefully, you have made a copy of those important files. If not, there is still a function of System Restore but it needs a Restore Point to be previously saved. All other solutions require time.

🤔 What should I do if the Black hunt 2.0 virus has blocked my PC and I can’t get the activation code.

🤔 What could help the situation right now?

Many of the encoded files might still be at your disposal

• If you sent or received your critical files through email, you could still download them from your online mailbox.
• You may have shared photographs or videos with your friends or relatives. Simply ask them to post those pictures back to you.
• If you have initially got any of your files from the Internet, you can try to do it again.
• Your messengers, social media pages, and cloud drives might have all those files as well.
• It might be that you still have the needed files on your old PC, a laptop, phone, external storage, etc.

USEFUL TIP: You can use file recovery utilities¹ to retrieve your lost information since ransomware blocks the copies of your files, removing the authentic ones. In the tutorial below, you can learn how to use PhotoRec for such a recovery, but be advised: you won’t be able to do it before you remove the virus with an antivirus program.

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