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Evolution of JSWorm ransomware

SecureList

MAY 25, 2021

The original version of the malware, as well as some of the subsequent “rebrandings”, e.g., Nemty, were advertised on an underground forum by a poster with the username jsworm. We will describe some notable variants of the JSWorm family encountered during the history of this malware. Technical details. May 2019: JSWorm.

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Ransomware by the numbers: Reassessing the threat’s global impact

SecureList

APRIL 23, 2021

Was ransomware, in fact, a dying species of malware? In 2019, the share of users targeted with ransomware among the overall number of users that encountered malware was 3.31%; this declined slightly in 2020 to 2.67%. The share of ransomware detections among the overall number of malware detections was 1.49% in 2019 and 1.08% in 2020.

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Evolution of JSWorm ransomware

Ransomware by the numbers: Reassessing the threat’s global impact

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