Cipher Tech analysts monitoring VirusTotal for BlackMatter ransomware activity discovered new variants of BlackMatter malware self-reporting as versions 1.9 and 2.0. The new BlackMatter malware samples contain additional functionality, changes to the configuration data, and version 2.0 additionally introduces changes to the configuration decryption algorithm. Cipher Tech analysts developed an ACCE module to automate the extraction of BlackMatter malware’s configuration data. Cipher Tech’s analysis reveals