New Ransomware Avoids Hitting the Same Victim Twice

A new strain of ransomware, OphionLocker, generates a unique hardware identifier for each new infected machine so that it can avoid hitting the same victim twice, according to new research from KnowBe4, a Florida-based security awareness training firm.
"This we have not seen before," said KnowBe4 CEO Stu Sjouwerman, who suggested that the crooks have a brand reputation to maintain.
If the ransomware attacked the same machine twice, re-encrypting already encrypted files, they might not be abl