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Vice Society Hackers Are Behind Several Ransomware Attacks Against Education Sector

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read4 · 1 read
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2022-24521
Out-of-bounds Write Privilege Escalation in Microsoft Windows CLFS Driver
7.87%KEVRansomware
KEV

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2 min read at thehackernews.com

A cybercrime group known as Vice Society has been linked to multiple ransomware strains in its malicious campaigns aimed at the education, government, and retail sectors. The Microsoft Security Threat Intelligence team, which is tracking the threat cluster under the moniker DEV-0832, said the group avoids deploying ransomware in some cases and rather likely carries out extortion using exfiltrated stolen data.

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