Kill Lambdalocker Removal Guide

Kill Lambdalocker falls under the category of ransomware. As usual for this type of application, it may lock data on the user’s computer and ask for a ransom to be paid in exchange for a decryption tool and a key. These terms and more instructions are stated in the malware’s ransom note. To find out more about the contents of this message and the threat’s working manner, users should continue reading the article. Once you learn about it, we would advise you to erase the malicious application. Removing this threat will not unlock your data, but keep it in mind that even if you agree to pay there are no reassurances the malware’s developers are going to keep up to their promises. Deleting the infection might be not so easy, and that is why our specialists prepared instructions, which you can find at the end of the article.

If your files are marked with a second extension called .lambda_l0cked, there is no doubt you encountered Kill Lambdalocker. When the ransom note it could display after the infection is finished enciphering targeted data should mention a particular email address too (lambdasquad.hl@yandex.com). The text might be written in English and Chinese, but Yandex is more popular in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Turkey, so the threat’s creators are possibly from one of these listed countries.

Furthermore, according to the note, Kill Lambdalocker enciphers user’s data with AES-256 and SHA-256 encryption algorithms. Therefore, it might be impossible to unlock damaged files without a decryption tool and a unique decryption key. If this key was truly saved during the encryption process, it should be hidden on some secret server belonging to the malware’s creators. The problem with such servers is that if you lose connection with it, retrieving the information hidden on it becomes impossible. This is one of the reasons why sometimes users cannot get the decryption key even after paying the ransom. Naturally, we would advise you not to take any chances either and get rid of the malicious application instead of funding its developers.

It is difficult to say how exactly the malware is spread, but our specialists think that users could receive it through malicious files. For example, you may have downloaded such file from Spam emails, while visiting malicious web pages, installing suspicious programs or updates, and so on. It means that in order to erase the infection manually, you will have to remember the file that you opened before Kill Lambdalocker’s ransom note appeared. If you have no idea where to look for it, you could take a look at the instructions provided below as they will list a few possible directories.

The other way to remove the infection is to acquire a legitimate antimalware tool. With such software, you could scan the computer and detect the ransomware automatically. While doing so the tool could locate other possible threats on the system too, so by clicking the removal button, you would clean the computer. Also, if you still have some questions related to Kill Lambdalocker, feel free to message us through social media or write a comment below.

Eliminate Kill Lambdalocker

1. Tap Win+E.
2. Find the malicious file; it could be placed in the Desktop, Temporary Files, Downloads, or other directories.
3. Right-click the infected file and select Delete.
4. Look for a file named as READ_IT.hTml; it might be placed on user’s Desktop.
5. Right-click the ransom note and choose Delete.
6. Close the Explorer.
7. Empty the Recycle Bin.
8. Reboot the system.