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Clop Ransomware Now Kills Windows 10 Apps and 3rd Party Tools


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January 3, 2020 By Lawrence Abrams

 

Ransomware

The Clop Ransomware continues to evolve with a new and integrated process killer that targets some interesting processes belonging to Windows 10 apps, text editors, programming IDEs and languages, and office applications.

When the Clop Ransomware started circulating in February 2019, it was just your normal garden variety CryptoMix ransomware variant with the same features we have been seeing in this family since 2017.

In March 2019, though, the Clop Ransomware suddenly changed and began disabling services for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, BackupExec, and other enterprise software.  The ransom note had also changed to indicate that the attackers were targeting an entire network rather than individual PCs.

 

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