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12 Aug 2026, 12:35 AM	The Hacker News	2.0	DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt DeadLock ransomware, active since July 2025 with 96 claimed victims across Italy, Spain, Poland, Türkiye, and the U.S., uses Polygon smart contracts and the Session messaging network to decentralize its extortion infrastructure, making takedown harder. The group employs double extortion, selective encryption using Curve25519 and XChaCha20, and communicates via Session with Bitcoin or Monero payments. Why: This is a general ransomware threat story with no direct connection to AI, agents, developer tooling, or Malaysian/Southeast Asian infrastructure. Builders in this audience are unlikely to need to change anything based on this unless they operate in the affected regions or sectors. ransomware blockchain security

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12 Aug 2026, 12:35 AM

The Hacker News

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DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt

DeadLock ransomware, active since July 2025 with 96 claimed victims across Italy, Spain, Poland, Türkiye, and the U.S., uses Polygon smart contracts and the Session messaging network to decentralize its extortion infrastructure, making takedown harder. The group employs double extortion, selective encryption using Curve25519 and XChaCha20, and communicates via Session with Bitcoin or Monero payments.

Why: This is a general ransomware threat story with no direct connection to AI, agents, developer tooling, or Malaysian/Southeast Asian infrastructure. Builders in this audience are unlikely to need to change anything based on this unless they operate in the affected regions or sectors.