Security News > 2024 > September > Microsoft Warns of New INC Ransomware Targeting U.S. Healthcare Sector
2024-09-19 10:12
Microsoft has revealed that a financially motivated threat actor has been observed using a ransomware strain called INC for the first time to target the healthcare sector in the U.S. The tech giant's threat intelligence team is tracking the activity under the name Vanilla Tempest (formerly DEV-0832). "Vanilla Tempest receives hand-offs from GootLoader infections by the threat actor Storm-0494,
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