Technical issues compel ransomware operator to switch to good ol’ data theft and extortion scammers

Unable to fine tune their decryptor, the threat actors behind the Babuk ransomware have changed their business model, and are no longer encrypting their victim’s data, according to cybersecurity researchers. While it initially attacked Windows machines, the ransomware had added a cross-platform binary that allowed it to target Linux machines as well as VMware ESXi-powered […]

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