Sophos’s new Sophos Endpoint Security product was built on the same “genotyping” technology the company used to crack this week’s “ransomware” Trojan. Sophos claims its Genotype technology digs deeper into malware, whether it’s a virus or annoying spyware. In the case of the pharmacy ransomware attack, Sophos researchers used its DNA to retrieve the password. The School District of Philadelphia chose the Sophos package rather than upgrade its existing McAfee antivirus software.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/sophos-method-used-to-crack-trojan