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Microsoft warns of new ransomware campaign by the Twisted Spider group
According to a series of posts on X by Microsoft Threat Intelligence, Russia-based ransomware actor Storm-0216 (aka Twisted Spider, UNC2198) is using Danabot, an advanced banking Trojan, to deploy Cactus ransomware.
First identified earlier this year, Cactus uses tools and custom scripts to disable security software to ease the distribution of the ransomware binary. In the current campaign, Microsoft Threa...
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