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CryptoWire ransomware not dead

ID: a55aa77a-8194-5c68-bc50-66d04eb7cba9

STIX ID: report--a55aa77a-8194-5c68-bc50-66d04eb7cba9

Feed Name: Blaze's Security Blog

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2018-04-12

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: Bart

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The report analyzes a recent CryptoWire ransomware sample, describing its ransom note, targeted file extensions, AES encryption mechanism, use of .encrypted. file markers, shadow copy deletion via vssadmin and BCDEdit changes, and persistence through a scheduled task; it also lists the attacker’s contact email and provides a decryption key specific to this variant.

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