2019 is shaping up as a year when ransomware infection frequency declined by orders of magnitude. The Shade Ransomware (2019 variant) was last known active in the wild five years ago in 2014 by Kaspersky Labs. Palo Altos Unit42 team detected some instances of its resurrection in the United States, India, Thailand, Canada, and Japan. The way Shade ransomware spreads are no different from any contemporary malware of our time, the way it spreads. The strongest campaign for this ransomware infection was when there was a huge number of spam emails way back Feb 2019.”]
Source: https://hackercombat.com/a-brief-look-at-the-shade-ransomware-2019-variant/