In 2019, the resurgence of ransomware is still in full swing. Since the beginning of the year, a veritable litany of companies and organizations have suffered at the hands of this kind of malware: local governments, manufacturers, hospitals, producers, critical infrastructure…
While we know who the victims of these ransomware attacks are, more often than not, the strain of malware used in the incidents remains unknown. Some exceptions include RobbinHood, the ransomware used in Baltimore, which was detected several months later showing off about its success; or LockerGoga, the ransomware that forced Norsk Hydro to disconnect 22,000 computers in 40 countries.
PureLocker: a new ransomware with unusual tactics
We have now seen another ransomware variant that is threatening organizations worldwide. PureLocker is a piece of ransomware that is being used in targeted attacks against company servers, and seems to have links with notorious cybercriminal groups.
This malware, which encrypts its victims’ servers in order to demand a ransom, has been analyzed by researchers at Intezer and IBM X-Force. They called it PureLocker because it is written in the programming language PureBasic. This choice of language is unusual, but ..
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