What Ransomware Written in Java?
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4 min readJun 7, 2020
You should all know that ransomware is typically written in JavaScript, ActionScript, C#, C++ and even Golang. But a new family of ransomware aims to get under the detection radar by porting itself to Java. It is named Tycoon, and appeared in December 2019. As it is a Java executable, it is able to run on a range of systems including Windows and Linux.