The Week in Ransomware - November 8th 2019 - Now Targeting Passwords

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It has been an busy week in terms of ransomware between a new variant of MegaCortex that performs something a bit different and MSP attacks against Everis in Spain.
This week a new MegaCortex variant was discovered that threatens to steal your data and publish it if you do not pay the ransom. In addition it states that your credentials have changed, which is not an idle threat as it does indeed change the victim's Windows password.
In addition, we had a major attack targeting Spain with victims including the MSP Everis and SER, Spain's largest radio station network. It is not known if Everis was infected first and used to infect other clients or if they are different attacks. Either way it was a big mess for all involved.
Other than that, we had new variants released as well as new distribution methods discovered.
 

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