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Ransom.NightSky is Malwarebytes' detection name for a family of highly targeted ransomware.
Night Sky will append the .nightsky extension to encrypted file names. On an affected system there will be a ransom note named NightSkyReadMe.hta in each folder.
Like many other ransomware operators Night Sky has also increased pressure on its victims by threatening to publicize exfiltrated data on the dark web.
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