News broke on 5 July 2022 that the operators of AstraLocker Ransomware were shutting down in favor of pursuing a new cryptojacking campaign. The group shared decryptors with VirusTotal, and according to BleepingComputer the decryptors worked on test files that were recently encrypted by the ransomware. AstraLocker was born out of the Babuk ransomware family. In the Summer of 2021 Babuk ransomware group’s code was leaked and the similarities between the leaked code and AstraLocker’s code point
