back to article Bootkit ransomware baddy hops down BadRabbit hole in Japan

A new strain of ransomware is apparently being used for targeted attacks in Japan. MBR-ONI, a new bootkit ransomware, relies on modified version of a legitimate open-source disk encryption utility called DiskCryptor for its encryption routines – the same tool abused by the Bad Rabbit ransomware last week. While ONI and the …

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