Researchers at Sophos Group plc have released details of new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to compromise and encrypt virtual machines hosted on an ESXi hypervisor.

New Python ransomware targets virtual machines, ESXi hypervisors to encrypt disks By targeting ESXi, encryption was achieved in less than three hours on a corporate network.

Cybersecurity experts have shared details about a speedy new ransomware campaign attacking virtual machines (VM) hosted on a VMware ESXi hypervisor. Describing it as a sniper-like operation ...

However, Python is pre-installed on Linux-based systems such as ESXi, and this makes Python-based attacks possible on such systems,” reason the researchers, who managed to scrape the ransomware ...

Threat researchers at Sophos have identified a new strain of unusually fast-acting ransomware written in the Python programming language that has targeted VMware ESXi servers and virtual machines ...

The young hacker recently uploaded multiple malicious Python packages containing ransomware scripts to the Python Package Index (PyPI), supposedly as an experiment.

A new ransomware has been discovered by AVG malware analyst @JakubKroustek called HolyCrypt. This ransomware is written in Python and compiled into a Windows executable using PyInstaller. This ...

Per the Google Threat Intelligence Group report, the cybercrooks deployed a technique called ‘Vishing’ which is essentially ...

A new kind of ransomware written in Python has upped the encryption game by using a unique key for every file it encrypts on a victim's machine, researchers have warned. The ransomware, dubbed ...

OXFORD, United Kingdom, Oct. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has released details of a new ransomware written in Python that attackers used ...