"Your network has been ranked. Your files are encrypted with a military-grade algorithm. You have 72 hours to pay 0.5 Bitcoin."

Unlike spyware or adware, ransomware does not just steal data; it destroys access to it. Without the decryption key (which is mathematically impossible to brute-force with current technology), the data is effectively lost.

– A rule name where rank refers to a numeric score for likelihood of ransomware.

While there is no widely documented malware strain specifically named "ransomware.win.rank"

is a heuristic or specific detection name used primarily by antivirus engines (often associated with lower-tier heuristic scanners or specific threat databases) to identify a malicious executable file that exhibits the behavior of ransomware on the Windows operating system.