News Summary

• VECT 2.0, a relatively new ransomware variant that’s being offered for sale on dark web forums, is actually broken and works as a data wiper instead of an encryptor.
• Only the last part of the file can be recovered, while the rest is permanently destroyed.
• Even if the victims decide to pay the ransom demand, they still won’t be able to recover their files.
• To make matters worse, what the encryptor considers a “large file” is also wrong.