DeadLock, an emerging financially motivated ransomware operation that couples conventional intrusion tradecraft with decentralized infrastructure engineered to survive disruption. First observed in July 2025, the operation uses double extortion: encrypting enterprise data while threatening publication of stolen material. The encryptor’s pre-encryption routine is built to degrade both prevention and recovery. After XOR-decoding an embedded configuration, […]
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