New Version of DeathRansom Ransomware Aggressively Encrypts Network Drive Files After it’s Encryption Bug Fixed by Author

From gbhackers.com

DeathRansom

DeathRansom – A new ransomware strain that evolves from no encryption to using a combination of encryption algorithms to encrypt files.

The ransomware strain observed first in earlier November, it pretends to encrypt files, but it only appends the extension, users able to recover the files by just removing the extension.

Researchers from Fortinet observed that the threat is evolving and uses a combination of algorithms to encrypt files.

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