It’s rare a week goes by now without a new strain of ransomware making headlines. Researchers described one of the latest earlier this week, a relatively affordable ransomware-as-a-service named AlphaLocker.
One of the main selling points to AlphaLocker is how cheap it is; the ransomware can be purchased directly from the author for as little as $65 USD, via Bitcoin, researchers claim. With proof of purchase, attackers get a copy of the actual ransomware, the master decryptor binary, and their own administrative panel, according to Cylance, which carried out a full review of the ransomware on Wednesday.
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