Decryptor Issued For Babuk Tortilla Ransomware Variant

Researchers with Cisco Talos have released a decryptor for the Tortilla variant of the Babuk ransomware, allowing businesses targeted by the ransomware to recover their files. The Cisco Talos team also shared related threat intelligence with Dutch law enforcement agencies, which were then able to identify and apprehend the threat actor behind Babuk Tortilla operations.

Babuk emerged in 2021 with wide-ranging attacks on critical infrastructure organizations across the healthcare and manufacturing sectors. That year, the malware’s source code and binary …

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