Yahoo Finance

Sophos Researchers Uncover New Python Ransomware Targeting an ESXi Server and Virtual Machines in an Ultra-High-Speed Attack

OXFORD, United Kingdom, Oct. 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has released details of a new ransomware written in Python that attackers used to ...
Bleeping Computer

Ransomware gang encrypts VMware ESXi servers with Python script

Operators of an unknown ransomware gang are using a Python script to encrypt virtual machines hosted on VMware ESXi servers. While the Python programming language is not commonly used in ransomware ...
Computer Weekly

New Python-based ransomware attacks unfold in record time

Threat researchers at Sophos have identified a new strain of unusually fast-acting ransomware written in the Python programming language that has targeted VMware ESXi servers and virtual machines (VMs ...
Dark Reading

PyLocky Ransomware Can Get Around Machine Learning Solutions

Ransomware may not be as high profile as it was last year in the wake of WannaCry and other campaigns, but threat actors continue to improve on the malware. A recent example is PyLocky, a ransomware ...