Security News > 2025 > January > Python-Based Malware Powers RansomHub Ransomware to Exploit Network Flaws
2025-01-16 06:45
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an attack that involved a threat actor utilizing a Python-based backdoor to maintain persistent access to compromised endpoints and then leveraged this access to deploy the RansomHub ransomware throughout the target network. According to GuidePoint Security, initial access is said to have been facilitated by means of a JavaScript malware downloaded named
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