Ransomware’s stranger-than-fiction origin story.
Alina Simone
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Scam ransomware

Interesting article! The frightening part is, scam ransomware has been introduced. Recent Faiware Ransomware is a perfect example. Investigation carried out by Bleeping Computer revealed that one of the Fairware attackers used an IP address found in the Duo Security’s list of attacker IP addresses which confirms that hackers were using Redis servers to deploy the ransomwares. Above all there has been no indication till now that the files are encrypted or even backed up anywhere before being deleted. The attackers will delete the files and won’t even return them even after payment of ransom.