New Mimic Ransomware Abuses Windows' 'Everything' Search Tool

Researchers at Trend Micro discovered a new ransomware strain, dubbed Mimic, that utilizes the 'Everything' file search tool on Windows to discover files to be targeted for encryption. English and Russian-speaking users are the prime targets. The ransomware supports command-line arguments to narrow down encryption targets. It also makes use of multi-threaded execution to speed up the data encryption process.