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The Week in Ransomware - November 25th 2016 - Locky, Decryptors, Cerber, Open Source Ransomware sucks, and More
Lots of ransomware stories this week. We have two new decryptors, quite a few new ransomware infections, PadCrypt being hidden inside a fake credit card generator, and a few new variants. The biggest news is two new variants of the Locky ransomware that append the .zzzzz and .aesir extensions for encrypted files.
- November 25, 2016
- 11:43 AM
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Locky Ransomware now using the Aesir Extension for Encrypted Files
Early this morning, a new Locky campaign was discovered that is spewing out emails that pretend to be an ISP complaint stating that SPAM has been detected coming from the computer. Further testing of the new sample shows that Locky has also changed the extension for encrypted files to .AESIR.
- November 21, 2016
- 10:58 AM
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