Ransomware crew infects 100+ orgs monthly with new MedusaLocker variant

An extortionist armed with a new variant of MedusaLocker ransomware has infected more than 100 organizations a month since at least 2022, according to Cisco Talos, which recently discovered a "substantial" Windows credential data dump that sheds light on the criminal and their victims. The miscreant, whom Talos has dubbed " …

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The new AI world?

We are saying "more than 100 organizations a month since at least 2022" but mostly only seeing malware infections. We're not working in the malware environment to start to know how the malware creation is happening, although we do see AI everywhere these days.

It's hard to guess that AI is often not used badly too, we only created AI to to be powerful for all users but we were only looking are our normal work originally. The computing world has a "climate change" AI is not bad, generating electricity is not bad, but so many items may be having side-effects these days that we never thought might possibly exist initially. Originally we were only writing code to make things work well for everyone using our code; nowadays everywhere we seem to be only getting code created to make our company wealthy, not seeing what else our computing worlds update might create.

I'm not seeing the problem as AI, it's just our creation of the environment without ever thinking how it might be used.

[druck]

UnpaidMemes

Ban Crypto and they will be UnpaidMemes, along with all the other ransomware crews.

[Anonymous Coward]

Huh?

It's been known for 2 years and AV's haven't been updated to detect it?