Mafiaware666 Ransomware 🔐 (. Mafiaware666 File) — Removal Guide

What is known about the Mafiaware666virus?

Mafiaware666 will append its extra .MafiaWare666 extension to every file’s name. For example, a file named “photo.jpg” will be altered to “photo.jpg.MafiaWare666”. In the same manner, the Excel table named “table.xlsx” will end up as “table.xlsx.MafiaWare666”, and so forth.

In each folder containing the encrypted files, a pop-up window will appear. It is a ransom money note. Therein you can find information on the ways of contacting the racketeers and some other remarks. The ransom note most probably contains a description of how to buy the decryption tool from the ransomware developers. That is how they do it.

In the screenshot below, you can see what a folder with files encrypted by the Mafiaware666 looks like. Each filename has the “.MafiaWare666” extension added to it.

How did my machine catch Mafiaware666 ransomware?

There are currently three most popular methods for tamperers to have the Mafiaware666 virus planted in your digital environment. These are email spam, Trojan infiltration and peer networks.

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

Another option for ransom hunters is a Trojan horse scheme². A Trojan is an object that infiltrates into your machine disguised as something else. Imagine, you download an installer of some program you need or an update for some program. But what is unpacked reveals itself a harmful program that corrupts your data. Since the installation file can have any title and any icon, you’d better be sure that you can trust the resource 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 BitTorrent or eMule, the threat is that they are even more trust-based than the rest of the Web. You can never guess what you download until you get it. Our suggestion is that you use 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.