Ransomware is a piece of malware that prevents victims from accessing their files by encrypting them and generates a ransom note (e.g., displays a pop-up window, creates a text file). It is common that malware of this type renames encrypted files as well. Lamar is part of the VoidCrypt ransomware
Belonging to the VoidCrypt ransomware family, Arm is a malicious program designed to encrypt data and demand payment for the decryption. In other words, victims' files are rendered inaccessible, and they are asked to pay - to recover access to their data. During the encryption process, affected f
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SLAM is the name of a ransomware-type program. It is designed to encrypt data (lock files) and demand payment for the decryption (access recovery). During the encryption process, files are appended with the ".SLAM" extension. For example, a file initially titled something like "1.jpg" would appea
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