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Monti Ransomware Unleashes a New Encryptor for Linux

Posted on August 14, 2023 by Dissent

Nathaniel Morales and Joshua Paul Ignacio report:

… Following a two-month break from exposing victims on their leak site, the Monti ransomware group has resumed its malicious activities, this time targeting organizations within the legal and government sectors. Alongside this, a fresh Linux-based variant of Monti (Ransom.Linux.MONTI.THGOCBC) has emerged, displaying significant deviations from its other Linux-based predecessors. Unlike the earlier variant, which is primarily based on the leaked Conti source code, this new version employs a different encryptor with additional distinct behaviors. As of writing, only three security vendors that had the sample tagged it as malicious on VirusTotal.

Read more at Trend Micro.


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