Hello folks,
One of our other topics as part of this coming week’s podcast is talking about the Chaos Ransomware Development kit. In some similarities, it did at one point resemble RYUK, although its early days resembled more of a Trojan than ransomware activity, but now, they’re in line with the ransomware activities.
Trend Micro indicates that there are no victims yet that have been affected, and its already on its fourth iteration.
For the complete details, please read Chaos Ransomware: A Proof of Concept With Potentially Dangerous Applications and prepare for a long list of file extensions it can target. Some you may be familiar with, others you won’t. Just know you’ll be in serious trouble if you do get this.
YOur typical file extension like .txt, .htm, .asp, .mp3, .mpeg, .mp4 and many others are listed. Better look at the article, we sent this to the Security Box list already and finally getting a chance to write about some stuff.