SynAck Ransomware

The SynAck ransomware is not particularly new. It first appeared in the year 2017. At that time, the technology used in SynAck ransomware was very similar to other types of ransomware. The group behind the SynAck ransomware participated heavily in the evolution of ransomware attacks.

In fact, you don’t have many reports of victims of SynAck ransomware attacks. So I wonder why SynAck was so important in the evolution of ransomware?

In the cyber world, malware often uses what is called obfuscation so that the attacked system’s antiviruses don’t detect them. However, antivirus developers understood this and quickly remedied the problem.

On the other hand, a new version of the SynAck malware was created. This update brought remarkable improvements that managed to revolutionise and inspire the new generations of ransomware.

Improvements such as complete obfuscation of the code and its compilation, making detection significantly more difficult for security solutions. SynAck was also the first ransomware to use the Doppelgänging process, which is a method of executing arbitrary code in the address space of a separate live process.

In addition, SynAck ransomware is able to restrict its attacks to specific regions and verify that the malware is installed in the correct directory. If it is not, it is not executed.

Unlike other ransomware, SynAck does not usually generate a text file as a ransom note but uses the session login screen itself to deliver its message. Two email addresses are made available for the victim to contact the group to retrieve and pay the ransom.

One of the means of contamination of the SynAck ransomware is mainly Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). So basically any company that is using this protocol becomes a potential prey for SynAck ransomware.

Recover files encrypted by SynAck ransomware

Fortunately, today there are solutions for recovering data encrypted by SynAck ransomware.

Digital Recovery acts as an expert in the recovery of data encrypted by ransomware, and intervenes in almost all storage devices, such as storages, RAID systems, servers, databases, and others.

Over these years, we have developed unique solutions that have been based on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

For security and because we know that a company’s data must be private, we make available to all our clients a confidentiality agreement (NDA).

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