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These variants are cheap, independently produced, and crudely constructed.

Furthermore, they are not being sold as a service.

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Instead, hackers can buy it for a one-time fee, and keep all the potential profits for themselves.

To make matters even more interesting, these variants are significantly cheaper than their RaaS counterparts.

They offer an attractive way for newer criminals to get started in the ransomware world, they said.

For the past year or two, ransomware has reached a kind of homeostasis.

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