WESSY Ransomware (.WESSY Virus File)

The Wessy virus belongs to the ransomware type of malicious agent. Harmful software of this type encrypts all user’s data on the PC (photos, text files, excel sheets, audio files, videos, etc) and appends its specific extension to every file, creating the READ_ME.txt files in each directory with the encrypted files.

What is known about the Wessy virus?

Wessy will append its own .wessy extension to the name of every encrypted file. For example, an image entitled “photo.jpg” will be altered to “photo.jpg.wessy”. In the same manner, the Excel sheet named “table.xlsx” will be altered to “table.xlsx.wessy”, and so on.

In every folder that contains the encoded files, a READ_ME.txt text document will be found. It is a ransom money memo. It contains information on the ways of contacting the racketeers and some other information. The ransom note usually contains a description of how to purchase the decryption tool from the Wessy developers. You can obtain this decryptor after contacting Tox chat by email. That is it.

Wessy Summary:

The READ_ME.txt file coming in package with the Wessy malware states the following:

Don\'t worry, you can return all your files!


All your files like documents, photos, databases and other important are encrypted


What guarantees do we give to you?


You can send 3 of your encrypted files and we decrypt it for free.


send everything you have in ps99 to the user : pfftww
send everything you have in ps99 to the user : pfftww


(if you send less than $100 worth of ps99 titanics, huges, or gems please send $100 in litecoin to LaSM19DpJAWr6NCVT2oAnWieozQPsRK7Bj83r4)


You must follow these steps To decrypt your files :   
1) Write on uTox (hxxps://utox.org/) :E17712C45962279BAE0805044C6626CF11E033229AB539C23D0080A24486861B30A20C898E4E (our uTox contact ID)


2) Obtain Litecoin (You may have to pay some of the ransom with Litecoin
You may buy Litecoin from here hxxps://paybis.com/buy-litecoin/ when the ransom is paid in full then the decryptor tool will be placed onto your desktop.)


Dont do anything stupid...


We are watching


uTox contact ID: E17712C45962279BAE0805044C6626CF11E033229AB539C23D0080A24486861B30A20C898E4E


Litecoin address: LaSM19DpJAWr6NCVT2oAnWieozQPsRK7Bj83r4

In the screenshot below, you can see what a directory with files encrypted by the Wessy looks like. Each filename has the “.wessy” extension appended to it.

How did Wessy ransomware end up on my PC?

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

Nowadays, there are three most popular methods for malefactors to have the Wessy virus acting in your digital environment. These are email spam, Trojan injection and peer file transfer.

• Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan file scheme. A Trojan is a program that gets into your computer disguised as something different. Imagine, you download an installer of some program you want or an update for some software. But what is unboxed turns out to be a harmful agent that encrypts your data. As the update wizard can have any title and any icon, you have to make sure that you can trust the source of the stuff you’re downloading. The optimal thing is to trust the software developers’ official websites.
• As for the peer-to-peer networks like torrents 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. So you’d better be using trustworthy resources. Also, it is reasonable to scan the folder containing the downloaded files with the anti-malware utility as soon as the downloading is finished.

How to remove ransomware?

It is crucial to inform you that besides encrypting your data, the Wessy virus will most likely install Vidar Stealer on your PC to get access to credentials to different accounts (including cryptocurrency wallets). The mentioned program can derive your credentials from your browser’s auto-filling data.

How to avoid ransomware infiltration?

Wessy ransomware doesn’t have a endless power, neither does any similar malware.

You can protect yourself from ransomware infiltration in several easy steps:

• Never open any letters from unknown mailboxes with strange addresses, or with content that has nothing to do with something you are expecting (can you win in a money prize draw without participating in it?). If the email subject is likely something you are waiting for, check all elements of the questionable letter carefully. A hoax email will surely contain a mistake.
• Never use cracked or untrusted software. Trojan viruses are often spreaded as a part of cracked products, most likely under the guise of “patch” which prevents the license check. But dubious programs are difficult to distinguish from trustworthy ones, because trojans sometimes have the functionality you seek. Try searching for information about this software product on the anti-malware forums, but the optimal solution is not to use such programs at all.

FAQ

🤔 How can I open “.wessy” files?Are the “.wessy” files accessible?

Unfortunately, no. You need to decipher the “.wessy” files first. Then you will be able to open 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. In case you haven’t, there is still a chance that you do have a Restore Point from some time ago to roll back the whole system to the moment when it had no virus yet, but already had your files. All other solutions require time.

🤔 What to do if the Wessy virus has blocked my PC and I can’t get the activation key.

🤔 What could help the situation right now?

Many of the blocked files might still be at your disposal

• If you exchanged your important files by email, you could still download them from your online mail server.
• You might have shared images or videos with your friends or relatives. Simply ask them to post those pictures back to you.
• If you have initially downloaded any of your files from the Internet, you can try downloading them again.
• Your messengers, social media pages, and cloud storage might have all those files too.
• Maybe you still have the needed files on your old PC, a portable device, mobile, external storage, etc.

USEFUL TIP: You can employ file recovery utilities¹ to retrieve your lost information since ransomware encodes the copies of your files, deleting the authentic ones. In the tutorial below, you can see how to recover your files with PhotoRec, but be advised: you can do it only after you kill the ransomware itself with an antivirus program.

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