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12239425294?profile=RESIZE_400xIn 1923, the Soviet Union created the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (an oblast is an administrative region or province) within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.  This oblast has a 95% ethnically Armenian population.  In 1988, Nagorno-Karabakh intended to leave Azerbaijan and join the neighboring Republic of Armenia.  While the Soviet Union was able to keep the resulting tension under control, once the USSR began to collapse, armed conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia began for co

12233630458?profile=RESIZE_400xRetch is a new ransomware variant first discovered in mid-August 2023.  It encrypts files on compromised machines and leaves two ransom notes asking victims to pay a ransom for file decryption.

Infection Vector - Information about the infection vector used by the Retch ransomware threat actor is not currently available.  However, it is unlikely to be significantly different from other ransomware groups.[1]  Retch ransomware samples have been submitted to a public file scanning service from the f