Lawrence Abrams reports:
The Mount Locker ransomware operation is gearing up for the tax season by specifically targeting TurboTax returns for encryption.
Mount Locker is a relatively new ransomware operation that began infecting victims in July 2020. Like other human-operated ransomware gangs, the Mount Locker gang will compromise networks, harvest unencrypted files to be used for blackmail, and then encrypt the devices on the network.
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