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New strain of Ransomware infected over 100,000 PCs in China

Security experts reported a new strain of malware spreading in China, the malicious code rapidly infected over 100,000 PCs in just four days. The malicious code also steals information on tens of thousands of user passwords on platforms such as Taobao and Alipay. The number of infections is rapidly increasing because hackers compromised a supply chain of the EasyLanguage programming software used by a large number of application developers. Ransomware demands victims to pay 110 yuan (nearly Euro 14) in ransom through WeChat Pay.”]

Source: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/78686/malware/china-ransomware-infections.html

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