Security News > 2023 > February > Bitdefender Releases Free Decryptor for MortalKombat Ransomware Strain

Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender has released a free decryptor for a new ransomware strain known as MortalKombat.

MortalKombat is a new ransomware strain that emerged in January 2023.

Xorist, detected since 2010, is distributed as a ransomware builder, allowing cyber threat actors to create and customize their own version of the malware.

"MortalKombat encrypts various files on the victim machine's filesystem, such as system, application, database, backup, and virtual machine files, as well as files on the remote locations mapped as logical drives in the victim's machine," Cisco Talos disclosed earlier this month.

"Based on the Xorist ransomware, MortalKombat spreads through phishing emails and targets exposed RDP instances," Bitdefender said.

The development also comes a little over a month after Avast published a free decryptor for BianLian ransomware to help victims of the malware recover locked files without having to pay the threat actors.

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