First, the gang used the organization's ESXi environment to create a virtual machine and maintain persistence, move laterally through the environment, dump credentials and steal data. It also ...
A new Rust-based version of the Qilin (Agenda) ransomware strain, dubbed 'Qilin.B,' has been spotted in attacks, featuring stronger encryption, better evasion from security tools, and the ability ...
In the long history of computer crime, the players, goals and tactics have seen a lot of change. Early computers were fairly isolated systems reserved for niche applications, mainly in academic ...
"During this period, we began to see Akira ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operators developing a Rust variant of their ESXi encryptor, iteratively building on the payload's functions while moving away ...
The pair suspect "with low to moderate confidence" that the reason for the break was to allow time for the operation's core dev team to work up a new, more effective encryptor payload. Akira had ...