Ransomware Attacks Continue in Ukraine with Mysterious WannaCry Clone

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A fourth ransomware campaign focused on Ukraine has surfaced today, following some of the patterns seen in past ransomware campaigns that have been aimed at the country, such as XData, PScrypt, and the infamous NotPetya.

 

The ransomware was discovered today by a security researcher who goes online only by the name of MalwareHunter.

 

The researcher says the ransomware got his attention because mostly Ukrainian victims were submitting samples for analysis on VirusTotal.

 

In the past month and a half, Ukraine has been bombarded with ransomware campaigns. The first was XData (mid-May), the second was PSCrypt (last week), and then NotPetya (started on Tuesday).

 

According to the researcher, this fourth ransomware campaign started on Monday, one day before NotPetya, and piqued his interest because of several reasons.

 

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