Ifla Ransomware Joins the Djvu Ransomware Family
Security researchers reported on a newly discovered ransomware strain. The new threat is called the Ifla ransomware, after the extension the ransomware uses for encrypted files.
Ifla belongs to the huge family of Djvu ransomware strains. New additions to the roster of Djvu spinoffs appear virtually every week.
The ransomware encrypts popular file types and makes them unreadable using the intended software. The encrypted files receive a new extension, appended after their original one. In this way, a file called "downtempo.mp3" will transform into "downtempo.mp3.ifla" once it has been scrambled by the encryption process.
The ransomware does little to set itself apart from the other recent Djvu clones, asking for $490 in the first 72 hours after infection and increasing the ransom demand to double this sum if payment comes later. The ransom note is dropped in a plain text file named "_readme.txt".
The full text of the ransom note is as follows:
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Currently, there is no working decryption tool for the Ifla ransomware.
