The lifecycle of a ransomware written in Python (featuring KMike)

This article documents the author-built Python ransomware "KMike," describing its lifecycle—delivery (malicious installer/malware masquerade), sandbox evasion checks, per-file AES-256-CBC encryption with per-file keys wrapped by RSA-2048, use of a Domain Generation Algorithm for command-and-control and unique Bitcoin addresses per victim—and links to the project repository and source code.