Check Point Research (CPR) and Check Point Incident Response Team (CPIRT) researchers detected a previously unknown ransomware strain, dubbed Rorschach ransomware, that was employed in attack against a US-based company.
The experts pointed out that the Rorschach ransomware appears to be unique. According to the report published by Check Point, Rorschach is one of the fastest ransomware observed to date.
The researchers conducted five separate encryption speed tests in a controlled environment (with 6 CPUs, 8192MB RAM, SSD, and 220000 files to be encrypted), limited to local drive encryption only. Below are the results of the tests:
