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Subj: New Snatch Ransomware Variant Avoids Detection Usi
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New Snatch Ransomware Variant Avoids Detection Using Safe Mode
Researchers have spotted a new variant of the Snatch ransomware that avoids
antivirus detection by rebooting machines to Safe Mode.
This ransomware is believed to be active at least from the 2018 summer, but
the Safe Mode enhancement appears to be a recently added feature.
The backdrop
While investigating a series of ransomware attacks, researchers from Sophos
Labs spotted this new variant of the Snatch ransomware.
This technique of forcing the Windows machines to reboot into Safe Mode is
possibly a way to skip endpoint protection.
In the Safe Mode, most software including security software doesn’t run, and
the ransomware beings to encrypt the hard drives in the infected system.
“SophosLabs feels that the severity of the risk posed by ransomware which
runs in Safe Mode cannot be overstated, and that we needed to publish this
information as a warning to the rest of the security industry, as well as to
end users,ö said the researchers.
Technical details
This malware that is written in the Go programming language, can not run
under multiple operating systems.
The malware contains a ransomware component, a data stealer component, along
with several publicly available tools.
The attacks involving this malware are usually of the ‘active automated
attack model’ type. This means brute force attacks are launched against
vulnerable networks, and then the penetration happens.
Detecting and preventing attacks
Most of the attacks involving this malware were observed to be on networks
that allowed uninhibited access for several days. Security experts recommend
monitoring networks and periodically hunting for threats.
To prevent this ransomware from impacting your network, here are a few
things you may want to do:
Organizations must implement multifactor authentication, especially for
those accounts with more privileges.
Vulnerabilities must be regularly scanned for and patched as soon as
possible.
As much as possible, organizations must prevent exposing their Remote
Desktop interface to the unprotected internet.
73 Henk.
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