Security researchers are concerned about a new ransomware strain that they characterise as a hybrid of the most potent ransomwares currently in use.
Researchers from the Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point named the new ransomware “Rorschach” and claimed their incident response team came across it while looking into an attack on a U.S.-based corporation.
Rorschach is “the fastest and one of the most sophisticated ransomware we’ve seen so far,” according to Sergey Shykevich, threat intelligence group manager at Check Point Research.
Each person who looked at it saw something slightly different, similar to the renowned psychological test, which is why the researchers termed it Rorschach.
“Just as a psychological Rorschach test looks different to each person, this new type of ransomware has technically distinct features taken from different ransomware families – making it special and different from other ransomware families,” Shykevich stated.
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