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Money Message Ransomware Targets Windows And Linux Devices

April 13, 2023

The Money Message ransomware targets both the Windows and Linux operating systems and exfiltrates sensitive data before encryption. The malware creates a custom mutex stops a range of services and processes and deletes all Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshots. The Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key exchange and ChaCha stream cipher algorithm are leveraged for encryption while a ransom note is created in money_message.log.