The little snippet of Python code strikes fast and nasty, taking less than three hours to complete a ransomware attack from initial breach to encryption.

Ransomware: Now cybercriminals are stealing code from each other, say researchers Those behind PetrWrap are apparently using code from another form of ransomware without paying for it.

A new ransomware has been discovered by AVG malware analyst @JakubKroustek called HolyCrypt. This ransomware is written in Python and compiled into a Windows executable using PyInstaller. This ...

Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor.

New Python ransomware targets virtual machines, ESXi hypervisors to encrypt disks By targeting ESXi, encryption was achieved in less than three hours on a corporate network.

Attackers used a script written in Python during a recent ransomware attack which took just three hours, encrypting all the virtual disks on the target's virtual machine hypervisor. Andrew ...

A new ransomware was discovered that is written in Python and targets the Zimbra enterprise collaboration software. Reported by one of our visitors, this ransomware targets the Zimbra email ...

Threat researchers at Sophos have identified a new strain of unusually fast-acting ransomware written in the Python programming language that has targeted VMware ESXi servers and virtual machines ...

'WannaCry' ransomware showed traces of North Korean code It hints that an infamous hacking group might be involved.