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Hackers have modified the infamous Malloxransomwareto also targetLinux systems, experts have claimed.

Furthermore, it uses the same command-line builder and configuration parameters, too.

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Everything else is left unchanged.

Instead, they attack vulnerable companies wherever they are.

At first, it was targeting mostly unsecured MS-SQL servers,Sekoiafound.

Between October 2022 and March 2023, its affiliates stole data from at least 20 organizations.

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