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It is being distributed through malvertising, underground websites, and dark web forums.

Still, the new version is bound to ruin the day for a lot of consumers.

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StopCrypt was first discovered in 2018,BleepingComputerreports, and has been quite active since then.

Its forum thread on STOP ransomware counts more than 800 pages.

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