Updated February 8, 2023. CISA has released a data recovery script dubbed “ESXiArgs-Recover” in order to help users who have been affected by the massive worldwide ESXiArgs ransomware server attacks on VMWare’s vSphere: GitHub. _________ Hacker group used a method that we encountered for the first time. A super-intelligence who thinks they can only get …
Category: Ransomware
Feb 04
Important Vulnerability in VMware ESXi
There is currently an encryption campaign targeting ESXi servers up to version 7.x via the CVE-2022-31696 vulnerability, which allows access to data on host systems.
Nov 27
Play ransomware infection routine
A ransomware gang named “Play” was discovered on the Dark Web. Along with them, a list of 22 victims has been revealed. There is a piece of evidence that points to a possible connection between Play ransomware and Quantum ransomware, which is an offshoot of the notorious Conti ransomware group. The Cobalt Strike beacons that …
Nov 24
Identify a piece of malware with Yara
Yara rules classify and identify malware samples by creating descriptions of malware families (it is a tool used to identify files, based on textual or binary pattern). YARA rules are like a piece of programming language, they work by defining a number of variables that contain patterns found in a sample of malware. If some …