The Story Of A Ransomware Turning Into An Accidental Wiper
Fortinet News, December 5th, 2022
In the last issue of our Ransomware Roundup series, we discussed a publicly available open-source ransomware toolkit called Cryptonite.
As part of that investigation, we also discovered a Cryptonite sample in the wild that never offers the decryption window, instead acting as a wiper. We recently saw an increase in ransomware intentionally turned into wiper malware, primarily as part of a political campaign. So in this post, we take a closer look at the Cryptonite wiper sample.