Reported by one of our visitors, this ransomware targets the Zimbra email message store folder and encrypts all of the files located within it. It then creates a ransom note in /root/how.txt that ...

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It's a little snippet of Python code – 6KB – that strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete from initial breach to encryption.

The ransomware, dubbed CryPy, is not the only kind of malware which has been written in the Python programming language -- joining the likes of HolyCrypt, Fs0ciety Locker, and Zimbra.

However, Python is pre-installed on Linux-based systems such as ESXi, and this makes Python-based attacks possible on such systems,” reason the researchers, who managed to scrape the ransomware ...

A new ransomware has been discovered by AVG malware analyst @JakubKroustek called HolyCrypt. This ransomware is written in Python and compiled into a Windows executable using PyInstaller. This ...

New Python ransomware targets virtual machines, ESXi hypervisors to encrypt disks ... Linux's remarkable journey from one dev's hobby to 40 million lines of code - and counting ...

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