Malware News Star Trek Themed Kirk Ransomware Brings us Monero and a Spock Decryptor!

[Solarquest]

Boldly going where no man has gone before, the Kirk Ransomware brings so much nerdy goodness to the table that it could make anyone in IT interested. We have Star Trek, Low Orbital Ion Cannons, a cryptocurrency payment other than Bitcoin, and a decryptor named Spock! Need I say more?

Discovered today by Avast malware researcher Jakub Kroustek, the Kirk Ransomware is written in Python and may be the first ransomware to utilize Monero as the ransom payment of choice.
At this time there are no known victims of this ransomware and it does not appear to be decryptable. For those who want to discuss this ransomware or receive updates about it, they can subscribe to our Kirk Ransomware Support & Help topic.

Kirk Ransomware uses Monero for Ransom Payments
More details in the link above

 

[larry goes to church]

I was listening to a podcast the other day and they mentioned Monero is one of the up and comming darknet currencies lol.
Gotta say this story is gold though.

 

[Solarquest]

VT 23/61
Antivirus scan for 39a2201a88f10d81b220c973737f0becedab2e73426ab9923880fb0fb990c5cc at 2017-03-17 08:43:47 UTC - VirusTotal

@Der.Reisende, or other HUB testers, can you please upload this sample to the hub?
Thank you

Update:
It took me more than 1 hour but I managed to connect and to upload it.

 

[Winter Soldier]

Whatever is the story or the name, the ransomware always imposes a revision of our backup policies.