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Nevada Ransomware, Nokoyawa Variant

ID: 16686b0f-a037-59ef-91c2-019bae3a697f

STIX ID: report--16686b0f-a037-59ef-91c2-019bae3a697f

Feed Name: Zscaler Security Research Blog

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2025-12-30

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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Technical analysis of the Nokoyawa ransomware family (versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 2.1/Nevada) describing differences and similarities across builds: encryption schemes (SECT233R1 and Curve25519 with per-file Salsa20 keys), implementation languages (C/C++ and Rust), configuration formats, command-line options (including safe-mode, --file/--dir/--config), shadow-copy deletion via IOCTL_VOLSNAP, CIS-region checks to avoid certain locales, and other operational details such as CIS exclusions, debug strings, and hardcoded vs. configurable parameters.

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