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New Money Message ransomware demands million dollar ransoms
2023-04-02 17:36

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.


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