Update: Schneider Electric hit by Cactus ransomware
Update 20/02/2024 - The Cactus hackers claim to have stolen 1.5TB of data. As proof, they leaked 25MB of the data on the dark web. They also published snapshots of US citizens' passports and scans of documents with a non-disclosure agreement.
Original - French multinational Schneider Electric ha... Read more
Cactus ransomware spread through BI platform Qlik Sense
The Cactus ransomware is actively spread via the cloud analytics and BI platform Qlik Sense. Arctic Wolf Labs' security specialists recently discovered this.
According to Arctic Wolf, this is the first time that vulnerabilities in Qlik Sense have been exploited to gain access to systems to sprea... Read more
Ransomware keeps evolving: Cactus strain encrypts itself
Security researchers at U.S.-based Kroll Inc. have discovered a new type of ransomware. The unique feature of the so-called Cactus ransomware: it can bypass endpoint security by encrypting itself, Bleeping Computer reports.
Discovered in March, Cactus is in many ways an ordinary variant of ranso... Read more