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Shade Ransomware Expands to U.S. Targets

posted onMay 23, 2019
by l33tdawg
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Shade, a ransomware known to target Russian victims, has been spotted in several recent campaigns scoping out new locations – including in the U.S. and Japan.

The ransomware, first spotted in late 2014 by Kaspersky Lab researchers, has been known for focusing on Russian victims – but more recent cyberattacks indicate that the majority of Shade ransomware executables are targeting users outside of Russia.

“In fact, our research shows that the top five countries affected by Shade ransomware are not Russia or nations of the former Soviet Union; they are the United States, Japan, India, Thailand, and Canada,” said Brad Duncan, researcher with Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 group in a Wednesday analysis.

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