Zepto ransomware virus
July 4, 2016 10:37 AM   Subscribe

Decrypt Zepto files The cybercrooks liable for distributing Locky, one of the dominating ransomware scourges of the current year, appear to have started a new campaign with a couple of tangible differences made to their extortion tactic. The new successor dubbed the Bart ransomware is on the loose, operating concurrently with the new iteration of Locky proper. Bart is adding its victims’ valuable files to ZIP archives that cannot be opened unless the user has the right password to unlock the archive. The revamped edition of the notorious Trojan, in its turn, is appending the .zepto extension to the scrambled objects.
posted by ThePeel (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Heya, the zepto situation is interesting but it'd be better to frame a post about this around some more well-known sources and a little more context than just a post on a random security blog. -- cortex



 
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posted by anarch at 10:47 AM on July 4, 2016


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