Novel Cylance Ransomware Targets Windows And Linux Systems

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Researchers detected a ransomware family dubbed Cylance that affects both Windows and Linux systems.

The ransomware performs tasks prior to starting the encryption process such as enabling several privileges creating a scheduled task for persistence and dropping the ransom note in every single folder.

Encryption is carried out using the Salsa20 (Windows) or ChaCha (Linux) stream ciphers.

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    Ransomware

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    Phishing

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