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Tag: ransomware

2017-01-17

Spora Ransomware Dropper Uses HTA to Infect System

This past week, a new Ransomware variant called Spora was spotted in the wild. Currently, Spora only targets Russian-speaking users. What’s interesting about this Ransomware is that its payment site is so well designed, one could think they are running a legitimate business. The dropper for Spora is basically an
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2016-12-08

Goldeneye Ransomware Uses COM to Execute Malicious JavaScript

There is a new ransomware going wild in Germany called Goldeneye, which is a variant of Petya. It’s targeting German-speaking users via email by attaching an application (Bewerbung) in Excel format (xls). At the time we started analyzing the Goldeneye malware, VirusTotal scored 9/54, but the score varied for different
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2016-07-05

Custom Threat Scoring with VTI

A Deep Dive into Automated, Customizable Threat Scoring In this second blog post about what’s new in V 1.10 we drill down into our VMRay Threat Identifier (VTI) engine and its threat scoring. It automatically identifies and flags malicious behavior using VTI rules, generating an overall severity score of malicious
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2016-05-25

Powershell Ransomware – a PowerWare Deep Dive

Malware authors are always looking for an edge to evade detection and extend the useful life of their creations. In the constant cat-and-mouse game between malware authors and security vendors, malware authors must constantly revise and reinvent their product. They will consider anything they can do to avoid detection. Along
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2016-05-02

7ev3n-HONE$T –Ransomware for the rest of us

The ransomware 7ev3n-HONE$T is a new version of an existing ransomware, 7ev3n, with a twist – a much lower ransom fee. Early this year, as reported in January by Graham Cluley, BleepingComputer and others, the original 7ev3n ransomware was spotted in the wild encrypting victims‘ files on Windows machines and
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