Python’s Byte: The Rise of Scripted Ransomware

The digital world that we live in has been always facing different types of cyber attacks. Of late, there has been a spurt in ransomware (a malware that permanently blocks access to the victim’s data demanding a ransom) attacks across the globe causing  great concern for organizations and individuals alike. 

This blog gets into the nuances of how Python is used by threat actors to write ransomware. 

While investigating samples of ransomware in VirusTotal, we found this binary interesting as …

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