This year, we’ve seen a carefully orchestrated ransomware campaign known as
SamSam, where the crooks have settled on a new mode of operation.
Instead of blasting out one copy of the malware out to thouands of potential victims over a day or two, the crooks blast thousads of copies of the malware onto computers inside a single organisation, pretty much all at once…
…and then, almost casually, offering a “volume discount” to fix the entire company in one fell swoop.
SophosLabs just published an intriguing
technical paper about the SamSam menace, and in the sample discussed in the paper, the malware includes a BAT file that lets the crooks set their price point for each attack:
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Learn more about this new trend in ransomware by
reading the paper now. (No registration required.)