The Week in Ransomware – July 10th 2020 – A quiet week

From bleepingcomputer.com

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It has been a pretty quiet week with few alleged attacks against corporate victims and mostly new variants of existing ransomware released.

The most interesting news is the Conti ransomware that appears to share the same code as Ryuk and could possibly be its successor. Ryuk has significantly decreased in activity over the past couple of months, while Conti has seen an increase.

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