July 20, 2022, 1:46 p.m. | noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

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Kaspersky security researchers have disclosed details of a brand-new ransomware family written in Rust, making it the third strain after BlackCat and Hive to use the programming language.
Luna, as it's called, is "fairly simple" and can run on Windows, Linux, and ESXi systems, with the malware banking on a combination of Curve25519 and AES for encryption.

"Both the Linux and ESXi

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