Lazarus Group, a team of cyber criminals reportedly based in North Korea, is believed to be targeting its southern neighbor with malicious documents. The files, recently reviewed by South Korean researchers and experts at AlienVault, pack Manuscrypt malware as the final payload.

Yet another release of Kraken Ransomware is here. It encrypts files and this time they increase there ransom amount to 1 BTC which was 0.25 in version 1.5.

Vendetta Ransomware encrypts user data with AES, and then requires a ransom in BTC to return files. .vendetta .VENDETTA and .vendetta2 extensions are added to the encrypted files.

SymmyWare ransomware encrypts user files with AES-256 bit encryption and does not demand a ransom. Encrypted files are appended with .SYMMYWARE extension.

Octopus Trojan is allegedly by the threat actor group DustSquad. They target diplomatic facilities in central Asia. Octopus Malware is written in Delphi.