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Old Malware Gives Criminals Tricky New Choice: Ransomware or Mining

The Rakhni Trojan (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Rakhni), first spotted in 2013, is now giving bad actors the ability to infect victims either with a ransomware cryptor or a miner. The malware, which has mostly been infecting victims in Russia, is first distributed via email spam campaigns. The downloader (an executable file written in Delphi) displays a message box with an error text purporting to be from Adobe throwing victims off track from suspecting they have been infected.

Source: https://threatpost.com/old-malware-gives-criminals-tricky-new-choice-ransomware-or-mining/133738/

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