Tagged: Medusa ransomware

By: Vladimir Kuskov, Head of Anti-Malware Research at Kaspersky Medusa ransomware is a malicious software that encrypts victims’ data and demands a ransom for its release. The threat actors behind this strain typically attack their victims via unsecured Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) access and phishing campaigns.  The attackers typically manually...

Our products detect Medusa ransomware by File Threat Protection as variants of Trojan-Ransom.Win32.MedusaNg. Additionally, products with the Behavior Detection component detect even unknown variants of this malware proactively as PDM:Trojan.Win32.Generic. With the help of our self-defense technology, our endpoint solution efficiently prevents malicious attempts to interfere with normal operation of...