Security News > 2021 > December > The Week in Ransomware - December 17th 2021 - Enter Log4j
The Hive ransomware gang is more active and aggressive than its leak site shows, with affiliates attacking an average of three companies every day since the operation became known in late June.
Microsoft urges admins of self-hosted Minecraft servers to upgrade to the latest release to defend against Khonsari ransomware attacks exploiting the critical Log4Shell security vulnerability.
Noberus: Technical Analysis Shows Sophistication of New Rust-based Ransomware Symantec, a division of Broadcom Software, tracks this ransomware as Ransom.
This would appear to show that this ransomware was active earlier than was previously reported, with MalwareHunterTeam having told BleepingComputer they first saw this ransomware on November 21.
TellYouThePass ransomware revived in Linux, Windows Log4j attacks.
Threat actors have revived an old and relatively inactive ransomware family known as TellYouThePass, deploying it in attacks against Windows and Linux devices targeting a critical remote code execution bug in the Apache Log4j library.