๐ Hungarian Developer Most Likely Behind Hucky Ransomware
๐ก Newskategorie: IT Security
๐ Quelle: news.softpedia.com
A new ransomware is going around that's trying to disguise itself as the more dangerous Locky, but is, in fact, a cheap knock-off, which based on available evidence, might be the work of a Hungarian malware author. The name of this ransomware strain is Hucky, as in Hungarian Locky, nicknamed so by Jakub Kroustek, the Avast malware analyst that came across it. Kroustek says he was tipped off that something might have been amiss when he discovered that this new strain, which initially he thought to be Locky, appended the .locky extension to all encrypted files. Locky hadn't used the .locky file extension for months, switching to .zepto, .odin, .shit, and more recently to .thor. Hucky is a cheap Locky clone At a closer inspection, Kroustek also discovered that the image which the ransomware used to change the user's desktop wallpaper had also been tampered with, showing a small lock icon in the top upper right corner, something that the original Lo... ...