Ransomware-as-a-service operation Avaddon announced Friday that it was shutting down. Avaddon has been the focus of separate alerts from the FBI and Australian Cyber Security Center. Emsisoft released a free decryptor for Avaddon, which it notes uses AES-256 and RSA-2048 to encrypt victims’ files. Malware analyst 3xp0rt reported Friday that on the Russian-language cybercrime forum XSS, the user X-DDoS, who’s apparently a distributed denial-of-service provider, had filed a claim.”]
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