Woburn, MA – May 7, 2018 – Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes. The developers behind SynAck also implement other tricks to evade detection and analysis, obfuscating all malware code prior to sample compilation and exiting if signs suggest it is being launched in a sandbox