Sugar ransomware targets individuals (new article from Malwarebytes)
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/ransomware/2022/02/we-absolutely-do-not-care-about-you-sugar-ransomware-targets-individuals/
Ransomware tends to target organizations. Corporations not only house a trove of valuable data they cant function without, but they are also expected to cough up a considerable amount of ransom money in exchange for their encrypted files. And while corporations struggle to keep up with attacks, ransomware groups have left the average consumer relatively untoucheduntil now.
Sugar ransomware, a new strain recently discovered by the Walmart Security Team, is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) that targets single computers and (likely) small businesses, too. Sugar, also known to many as Encoded01, has been in operation since November 2021.
Bleeping Computer notes that the Walmart Security Team got the name Sugar from a site belonging to an affiliate of the ransomware operation: sugarpanel.space.
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