The cybersecurity experts claimed to have unearthed a huge scam where the ransomware authors and their victims are left cheated even in Bitcoin. Thus, a hefty amount sent to someone in the most innovative payment network might reach an anonymous person.
One can counter the scam when one take resort to some Bitcoins online. The entire amount paid here straightly goes to the hackers’ pockets since files are encrypted.
The money sender who is caught in ransomware needs to pay via a Tor .onion site on the dark web. That’s the moment to be looted in the nefarious networking system.
A victim has not left the option to know the tips to install the Tor browser even after being cheated this way. Caught in a state of utter confusion, they are forced to take resort to Tor proxy. But this system, instead of providing some sort of relief puts the money sends in dire trouble instead since the hackers can ruin this service to ensure that it can act as a man-in-the-middle. Then this won't further allows anybody to log on to a .onion address into a website.
According to what the cybersecurity experts say, they have unearthed the fact that a single Tor proxy keeps working with ransomware payments. As a result, both ransomware’s authors and victims are left cheated.
A school of experts claims that the hackers keep the ransomware webpages deployed in payment matters changing to be visited via the Onion.top Tor-to-web proxy to get a different Bitcoin address displayed in the system.
Then what’s the way out? The experts have the answer. If this fatal scam is to be kept at bay, one should avoid the ransomware effects in the personal computers or smartphones if infected.