THREAT ALERT - INC RANSOMWARE [NEST]

Author: Cybereason Security Research Team

Cybereason issues Threat Alerts to inform customers of emerging impacting threats, including new ransomware actors such as the emergent group INC Ransom. Cybereason Threat Alerts summarize these threats and provide practical recommendations for protecting against them.

KEY DETAILS

● Targets US & western countries: Similar to many other ransomware groups, INC Ransom’s operators appear to mainly target the United States and European countries.

● Partial encryption: To accelerate encryption, INC ransomware employs partial encryption combined with a multi-threading approach.

● Sharing Lockbit blog design: The UI of LockBit’s and INC’s leak blogs carry some key simila…