A trojan targeting Linux and deployed by a known ransomware gang has been discovered by Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky.
"We recently discovered a new file-encrypting Trojan built as an ELF executable and intended to encrypt data on machines controlled by Linux-based operating systems," said Kaspersky security researcher Fedor Sinitsyn and Vladimir Kuskov, head of advanced threat research and software classification in a blog post.
The trojan was, so the two said, similar to the existing RansomEXX trojan, which they said had been deployed only last week against Brazil's courts, as well as targets in the US and elsewhere.
"Based on the ransom note, which is almost identical to the one in the sample we described, and the news article mentioned above, there ..
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