Tag: decryption
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VB2017 paper: Nine circles of Cerber
Earlier this week, we published the video of a VB2017 presentation on the Spora ransomware. Spora is hardly alone in this prominent threat type though, and one of the other major names in the world of ransomware is Cerber, which operates a successful affiliate scheme, making it ‘The McDonald’s of the underworld’. Last year, Check…
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VB2017 paper: Nine circles of Cerber
Earlier this week, we published the video of a VB2017 presentation on the Spora ransomware. Spora is hardly alone in this prominent threat type though, and one of the other major names in the world of ransomware is Cerber, which operates a successful affiliate scheme, making it ‘The McDonald’s of the underworld’. Last year, Check…
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New tool helps ransomware victims indentify the malware family
Malware infections are never fun, but ransomware is particularly nasty and the plague doesn’t seem likely to cease any time soon: new families are spotted almost daily. A small silver lining in this dark cloud is the fact that crypto is hard for the bad guys too: they have made many mistakes implementing their encryption…