Sophos Discovers Ransomware Abusing “Sophos” Name

Credit to Author: Andrew Brandt| Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2023 21:20:01 +0000

Attackers will sometimes use the name of security companies in their malware. While performing a regular search on VirusTotal looking for interesting malware and new ransomware variants using our threat hunting rules this week, a Sophos X-Ops analyst discovered a novel ransomware executable that appears to use “Sophos” in the UI of the panel alerting […]

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