Hidden Tear ransomware created by Turkish security researcher Utku Sen has been spun off into 24 not-so-friendly variants including Magic, LinuxEncoder and Cryptear.B.N. Sen created his ransomware with a number of key flaws and limitations. But heres the thing: Researchers from Kaspersky asserted that the InfoSec community already had a host of ransomware samples and didnt really need an educational resource to help their learning curve. Thankfully, much of it is little more than a nuisance.”]

