The Rainbird ‘.piz’ Ransomware Variant: A Definitive Forensic Recovery Guide
In our recovery lab today at Lockbit Decryptor, we isolated the Rainbird ransomware strain responsible for appending the .piz extension. Our forensic analysis definitively identifies this as a variant of the STOP/DJVU ransomware family. This variant employs an online-key mode, wherein files are encrypted using a unique AES-256 key per victim, which is then secured…