Now a variant of the famous Clop hostage program has appeared for Linux. Something that was first discovered by Sentinel Labs reports The Hacker News. The Linux variant of Clop is said to have been used to try to attack several educational organizations in Colombia.

However, the clop variant should contain a flawed encryption algorithm, making it possible to decrypt affected content without paying any ransom to the attackers. Sentinel Labs has also released a decryptor for the Linux variant that is free to use. However, the security company warns that more Linux-adapted hostage programs are expected in the future.