New Ransomware Mimic Emerges in the Wild, Abusing Legitimate Tool for Faster Encryption

Threat Advisories

New Ransomware Mimic Emerges in the Wild, Abusing Legitimate Tool for Faster Encryption

Threat Level
Attack Report

For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here

Summary

Mimic is a new ransomware that uses the APIs of a legitimate tool called Everything to encrypt target files and has multiple capabilities such as deleting shadow copies, terminating multiple applications and services, and disabling Windows defender.