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China deemed as a prodigy of technological outbreaks encountered unprecedented number of major cyber threats in last few years. Since the extensive destructive days of  WannaCry  and  NotPeyta  last year, ransomware attacks appeared to have dwindled heaving a sigh of relief among security researchers. A recent discovery of this distinctive cyber attack targeting China got the cyber security back to work. Unlike almost every ransomware malware that seek for ransom payments in Bitcoin, this ransomware virus demands for ransom through one of the country’s most popular payment methods.   WeChat Pay , one of  China’s most commonly used digital wallets , owned by Chinese tech giant  Tencent , was used by attacker to receive payments.   Threat Behavior This anonymous ransomware after infiltrating the system encrypts user’s files using a less secure  XOR cipher . However, the ransom note claims to have used a more sophisticated  DES encr...