R980 Ransomware Uses Disposable Email Addresses to Interact with Victims

A new ransomware variant called R980 is using the Mailinator disposable emails service to provide users with a way to interact with the ransomware's creator.

Previously today, we published a report on another new ransomware, also spotted for the first time this week, called Smrss32.

In our report, we referenced about that quirk that makes each ransomware different and memorable among the masses of new ransomware variants that are detected each week.

While for Smrss32 this quirk was its obsession with searching and targeting for 6,674 file extension types, R980's quirk is just as strange.

R980 uses Mailinator addresses as anonymous PO boxes

Most ransomware infections do one of two things. They either provide an email address where they want users to send an email and get in contact with the crook to negotiate the ...