How to remove RobinHood ransomware virus

Hackers behind RobinHood want to force victims to pay over 13 thousand dollars to help Yemeni people

RobinHood virus is an interesting piece of ransomware ^[1], supposedly created as a tool of fighting against new Yemeni’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. Hackers demand atrocious 5 Bitcoins with no guarantees of decrypting the encrypted data.

Don’t be deceived; this modern Robin Hood is most likely a group of hackers who don’t really care about the politics but are more focused on extorting money from their victims. Trust us; these crooks will definitely laugh all the way to the bank after ripping you off you money. Therefore, you should not be a tiny bit sorry by performing RobinHood removal.

Besides sending the criminals over 13 thousand dollars, victims have two more options: to give up all their sensitive information or to create a Twitter post condemning the Yemeni leader’s regime and make 100 people retweet it.

The transcript of the full note called READ_IT.txt is provided below:

HELP YEMEN
Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia is Killing poor and innocent people of Yemen by bombing , creating famine and disease!
You as a Saudian or a Supporter of their activities, are partner of his homicide. So you have been subjected to a ransomware attack and must accept one of the following:
a) Giving up all your information
b) Pay five Bitcoins to help Yemeni people.
bitcoin address = 1ENn1BelaKXBotiGuAFE1Yrin3e3vBjUAQH
and send transaction link to: decrypter.files@gmx.com
c) Use Tweeter to condemn Bin Selman for his crimes and ask him to stop the war against Yemen and make 100 users to retweet.

If you are a regular home user, we doubt that you will be willing to give up your life savings to hackers who may simply be using this fraud scheme as means of making easy money. If you desperately need your files though, you may try out the Twitter option, but by no means should you give up your personal information to anyone.

The safest option you have is to remove RobinHood virus from your computer and try to recover the encrypted data in other ways. You can rely on FortectIntego or other trusted antivirus software to complete the virus removal effectively.

Ransomware payload may be hidden inside spam emails

Ransomware reaches PCs in a variety of different ways. The broader range of distribution vectors ensures that RobinHood victimizes more computers, therefore is more profitable. Most commonly, hackers employ the following distribution techniques:

• malvertising ^[2];
• fake/illegal downloads;
• exploit kits.

Nevertheless, the biggest distributor of ransomware is spam and the malicious attachments that come along with these fraudulent emails. It is always recommended to look one step ahead and don’t rush opening any received emails. This may potentially protect you from RobinHood or any other infection stemming from the ransomware virus family.

While it seems that this parasite should spread in Saudi Arabia, the truth is, it can reach any parts of the world, including Portugal ^[3], Japan or the United Kingdom.

Say goodbye to the ransomware by performing RobinHood virus removal

Dedicated for good deeds or not, this parasite is a malicious infection and must be deleted from your computer without much delay. RobinHood removal should be performed using professional malware detection software.

If you run into problems when attempting a full PC scan, it might be that it’s the virus defense tactics preventing you from doing that. In such a case, we recommend disabling them by rebooting your PC in Safe Mode.