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Home   »   Crysis

A Show of (Brute) Force: Crysis Ransomware Found Targeting Australian and New Zealand Businesses

  • Posted on:September 19, 2016 at 4:17 am
  • Posted in:Ransomware
  • Author:
    Jon Oliver (Senior Architect)
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Crysis (detected by Trend Micro as RANSOM_CRYSIS.A), a ransomware family first detected in February this year, has been spotted targeting businesses in Australia in New Zealand through remote desktop protocol (RDP) brute force attacks.

Crysis has been reported in early June this year to have set its sights into carving a market share left by TeslaCrypt when the latter’s developers decided to shut down their operations, and rivaling Locky’s prevalence in the ransomware threat landscape.

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