BlackCat Spin-off 'Cicada3301' Uses Stolen Creds on the Fly, Skirts EDR

stapp · Sep 4, 2024

One of the most popular ransomware tools on the market today has spawned an even more advanced offspring.
"Cicada3301," named after the infamous 4chan puzzle project from the early 2010s, is a Rust-based ransomware tool that first came onto the scene on June 18. In the two and a half months since, according to its leak site, it has been used to compromise 21 companies.
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"If you would consider BlackCat advanced, then Cicada is the next step," says Michael Gorelik, CTO of Morphisec, which published a report about it today. "It has implemented features that I've never seen before in ransomware, and I've been doing this for years."
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https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/blackcat-spinoff-cicada3301-stolen-creds-skirts-edr

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