MegaCortex | Malware Authors Serve Up Bad Tasting Ransomware

This year’s uptick in new ransomware attacks continues with the emergence of the MegaCortex malware, first seen in May and engaging in targeted attacks on corporate networks throughout June and July 2019. Although the infection vector isn’t known at this time, it is likely spread through phishing emails, poisoned attachments or trojan installers. Analysis shows that MegaCortex makes a deliberate attempt to avoid both enterprise security solutions and specific business management software products and delivers a particularly unpleasant ransom note on top. In this post, we dig in to the MegaCortex ransomware and take it for a test drive on one of our endpoints.