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The Week in Ransomware – June 14th 2019 – pyLocky and GandCrab Cleans Up

This week we saw French law enforcement releasing a decryptor for the pyLocky Ransomware. We also saw a charity in Washington and a airplane manufacturer become infected with ransomware. A new ransomware called SD 1.1 was posted on the BleepingComputer forums and was identified by Amigo-A. The ransomware appends the[[email protected]].enc extension to encrypted files. It is quite ugly. The ransomware is being distributed through a LNK file that contains a PowerShell command.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-june-14th-2019-pylocky-and-gandcrab-cleans-up/

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