Security News > 2023 > April > New Money Message ransomware demands million dollar ransoms
A new ransomware gang named 'Money Message' has appeared, targeting victims worldwide and demanding million-dollar ransoms not to leak data and release a decryptor.
While investigating, BleepingComputer has seen evidence of a potential Money Message breach on a well-known computer hardware vendor.
The Money Message encryptor is written in C++ and includes an embedded JSON configuration file determining how a device will be encrypted.
During our tests, the encryption of the files by Money Message was fairly slow compared to other encryptors.
After encrypting the device, the ransomware will create a ransom note named money message.
The emergence of the Money Message ransomware group introduces an additional threat that organizations need to watch out for.