GandCrab’s Rotten EGGs Hatch Ransomware in South Korea

The VenusLocker group appears to be back, hatching a fresh GandCrab ransomware campaign, so to speak, using the EGG niche file type. The emails with EGG attachments are meant to specifically take aim at South Korean users. Trend Micro researchers, who first observed the offensive campaign in earl...

Crooks Switch from Ransomware to Cryptocurrency Mining

Criminals behind the VenusLocker ransomware have switched to cryptocurrency mining in their latest campaign targeting computer users in South Korea. Instead of attempting to infect targeted computers with ransomware, the group is now trying to install malware on PCs that mines for Monero, an...