New ransomware Zenis will delete backup files even if victim pays

March 21st, 2018 By Larry Jaffee
 
A self-proclaimed “mischievous boy” who calls himself “ZENIS” unleashed ransomware attacks that encrypt the files and then purposely deleted the backups.
 
Discovered last week by MalwareHunterTeam, Zenis uses a customized encryption method that warns recipients to pay up or risk losing forever their infected files.
 
A BleepingComputer.com blog post by Lawrence Abrams details how the scheme works, but lamented it's presently unknown how Zenis is being distributed or the extent of its effectiveness.
 
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