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Author of Executioner Ransomware Bungles Encryption Routine

Ransomware named Executioner has bungled the tool’s encryption routine. The good news is that this ransomware is not the subject of a massive distribution campaign, so the number of affected victims is low if any even exist. The ransomware isn’t even original, being based on EDA2, a ransomware building kit that was open-sourced and published on GitHub in late 2015. We have no details on the distribution vectors as of yet, but once the user launches the ransomware’s EXE file into execution, the ransomware will look to encrypt the following file types.”]

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/author-of-executioner-ransomware-bungles-encryption-routine/

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