Cyberone Ransomware 🔐 (. Cyberone File) — Removal Guide

Cyberone virus: what is known so far?

Cyberone will append its extra .cyberone extension to the title of every encoded file. For example, an image entitled “photo.jpg” will be altered to “photo.jpg.cyberone”. Likewise, the Excel table named “table.xlsx” will be renamed to “table.xlsx.cyberone”, and so on.

In every folder that contains the encoded files, a ___RECOVER__FILES__.cyberone.txt text file will be created. It is a ransom money memo. It contains information on the ways of paying the ransom and some other information. The ransom note most probably contains instructions on how to buy the decryption tool from the racketeers. That is basically the scheme of the crime.

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

How did Cyberone ransomware end up on my PC?

Nowadays, there are three most popular ways for tamperers to have ransomware settled in your system. These are email spam, Trojan infiltration and peer networks.

If you open your inbox and see letters that look just like notifications from utility services companies, delivery agencies like FedEx, Internet providers, and whatnot, but whose mailer is unknown to you, be wary of opening those emails. They are very likely to have a malware file enclosed in them. So it is even riskier to open any attachments that come with emails like these.

Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan virus model². A Trojan is an object that gets into your machine pretending to be something else. Imagine, you download an installer of some program you want or an update for some software. But what is unpacked reveals itself a harmful agent that compromises your data. As the update file can have any name and any icon, you’d better be sure that you can trust the resource of the things you’re downloading. The optimal thing is to trust the software companies’ official websites.

As for the peer file transfer protocols like torrent trackers or eMule, the threat is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Internet. You can never know what you download until you get it. Our suggestion is that you use trustworthy resources. Also, it is reasonable to scan the directory containing the downloaded objects with the anti-malware utility as soon as the downloading is complete.