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Apr 28 2026 Broken VECT 2.0 ransomware acts as a data wiper for large files

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Researchers are warning that the VECT 2.0 ransomware has a problem in the way it handles encryption nonces that leads to permanently destroying larger files rather than encrypt them. [...]

Posted by Bill Toulas on Tue 28 April 2026 in BleepingComputer.

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