New Junk Gun Ransomware Disrupts Ransomware-as-a-Service Racket Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, today released a new report titled, “’Junk Gun’ Ransomware: Peashooters Can Still Pack a Punch,” which offers new insights into an emergent threat in the ransomware landscape. Since June 2023, Sophos X-Ops has discovered 19 ‘junk gun’ ransomware variants—cheap, independently produced and crudely constructed ransomware variants—on the dark web. The developers of these junk gun variants are