Remove Leto Ransomware

The Leto Ransomware is a computer virus that can cause a lot of damage to your data. When it infects a machine, this threat will immediately begin to carry out several tasks simultaneously – it encrypts files, deletes Shadow Volume Copies, and disables System Restore. The first task is meant to lock the victim out of their data, while the latter two aim to limit the victim's data recovery options.

This threat is part of the STOP/Djvu Ransomware family. Unfortunately, this news is bad – this ransomware family has proven to be impossible to decipher via free utilities. Its victims will only be able to undo the damage to their files by restoring the original copies from a backup. Keep in mind that the Leto Ransomware is very destructive – it targets dozens of file formats, and encrypts their contents.

All files that this threat damages will be marked with the '.leto' extension. It will also create the ransom document '_readme.txt' on the Windows Desktop. This text-file contains a message from the attackers. The message explains the attack, and lists the demands of the criminals. Naturally, they are after the money of their victims. Allegedly, any victim of the Leto Ransomware can pay $490 to acquire a decryption tool.

The crooks list the emails gorentos@bitmessage.ch and amundas@firemail.cc. They also offer to unlock up to one file for free. You should make use of this offer to see if they can unlock at least one of your files. However, do not accept to complete the ransom payment – you will probably get scammed by doing this. Victims of the Leto Ransomware should run an antivirus scanner to terminate the virus. After this, they should try to restore their files via a backup for the best possible results. If a backup is not available, then we suggest experimenting with other popular data recovery methods.