• November 15, 2019

This unusual new ransomware is going after servers

This unusual new ransomware is going after servers

This unusual new ransomware is going after servers Ravensdale Digital

This unusual new ransomware is going after servers

PureLocker ransomware appears to have links to some of the most prolific cybercriminal operations active in the world today.

An unconventional form of ransomware is being deployed in targeted attacks against enterprise servers – and it appears to have links to some of the most notorious cyber criminal groups around.

The previously undetected server-encrypting malware has been detailed in research by cyber security analysts at Intezer and IBM X-Force, who’ve named it PureLocker because it’s written in written in the PureBasic programming language.

It’s unusual for ransomware to be written in PureBasic, but it provides benefits to attackers because sometimes security vendors struggle to generate reliable detection signatures for malicious software written in this language. PureBasic is also transferable between Windows, Linux, and OS-X, meaning attackers can more easily target different platforms.

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