It appears that the KeRanger Mac ransomware has roots in Linux, not Windows, as many were expecting to. A big surprise was revealed today by security researchers from Romanian antivirus company Bitdefender, who claim that the KeRanger Mac ransomware that appeared last weekend is actually a rewrite of the ransomware variant that’s been plaguing Linux servers […]
Lucky Linux server admins are lucky, ransomware is still a dud, fails to properly hide its encryption key. The Linux.Encoder ransomware has received a third update, which security researchers from Bitdefender have managed to crack, yet again, for the third time. Antivirus maker Dr.Web first discovered Linux.Encoder at the start of November 2015. News about the […]
Expect a new ransomware version in the coming weeks.The Linux.Encoder.1 ransomware, a special strand that has a taste for Web hosting and source code repositories, has managed to spread to almost 3,000 websites, despite being highly publicized in the media. The ransomware that spreads only to Linux operating systems has been seen only targeting specific […]
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a flaw in Linux Encryption Ransomware Linux.Encoder1 that exposes the decryption Key used to lock the files. Last week security experts at Russian antivirus firm Doctor Web reported the discovery of a new Linux ransomware dubbed Linux.Encoder1 that is targeting Linux systems. It has been estimated that tens of users have already […]