New Fake ‘Eva Richter’ Resume Spam Aims to Destroy Files

From bleepingcomputer.com

Ransomware

A new spam campaign is underway that pretends to be a job application from “Eva Richter” who is sending her photo and resume. This resume, though, is actually an executable masquerading as a PDF file that destroys a victim’s files by installing the Ordinypt Wiper.

Ordinypt is a destructive malware commonly targeted at German people that pretends to be ransomware that encrypts your files and then demands victim’s pay a ransom to get their files back. Unfortunately, even if a user pays the ransom, the files have been overwritten with garbage and cannot be decrypted.

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