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The CVEs used by the top five groups varied in severity (Figure 2), though most of these CVEs had a score of at least 7.2 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). As Figure 3 shows, the bulk of these vulnerabilities were exploited as a means of privilege escalation at 54.3%, followed by those for remote code execution (RCE) at 17.4%. Vulnerabilities exploited by the top five ransomware groups CVE-2021-30119, which has the lowest CVSS…

Royal ransomware expands attacks by targeting Linux ESXi servers Ransomware actors have been observed to expand their targets by increasingly developing Linux-based versions. Royal ransomware is following in the same path, a new variant targeting Linux systems emerged and we will provide a technical analysis on this variant in this blog. By: Nathaniel Morales, Ivan Nicole Chavez, Byron Gelera February 20, 2023 Read time:  ( words) Ransomware actors have been observed to expand their targets by…