As law enforcement arrests continue to put a dent in the plague of ransomware, new variants continue to pop up week after week. BlackByte ransomware was first publicly identified in a July 2021 BleepingComputer forum post from a user seeking help decrypting their encrypted files. Since then, there’s been a slow trickle of information regarding this new variant, with interest in it peaking in early October when operators attacked an Iowa grain cooperative.
Red Canary came across BlackByte workin…