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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. It's based on commodity ransomware dubbed Xorist and has been observed in attacks targeting entities in the U.S., the Philippines, the U.K., and Turkey.
Xorist, detected since 2010, is distributed as a

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