Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers.

The project is called PiKarma and it's a Python script created by Turkish security researcher Besim Altinok that can detect WiFi networks that are carrying KARMA attacks, a well-known form of WiFi ...

The virus when executed scans and infects any .pyc Python files it found. and displays the message "you have been exploited". The malware worked by interleaving viral code into binary code ...