New Mimic Ransomware Uses Windows Search Engine to Find and Encrypt Files

Cybersecurity researchers uncovered a new strain of ransomware named Mimic. Mimic uses Everything API, a file search tool for Windows, to search for files to encrypt. Some of the code in Mimic is similar to that found in Conti, whose source code was leaked to a Ukrainian researcher in March 2022. As a sophisticated malware, […]

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