Security News > 2021 > April > The Week in Ransomware - April 23rd 2021 - A brutal week

This week has been brutal, not because of many ransomware variants released but due to a single ransomware campaign that affected thousands of people.

In a novel approach to ransom demands, a new ransomware calling itself 'NitroRansomware' encrypts victim's files and then demands a Discord Nitro gift code to decrypt files.

Dnwls0719 found a new Xorist ransomware variant that appends.

Jakub Kroustek found two new Dharma Ransomware variants that append the.2122 and.

April 22nd 2021 Ransomware gang wants to short the stock price of their victims The operators of the Darkside ransomware are expanding their extortion tactics with a new technique aimed at companies that are listed on NASDAQ or other stock markets.

The hackers behind a nascent strain of ransomware hit a snag this week when a security researcher found a flaw in the payment system and, he says, helped victims save $27,000 in potential losses.

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