Microsoft Traces Four Ransomware Brands to One Repeating Playbook
The payload name changed across Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis and BERT deployments, but the operator kept returning to the same remote-access and exfiltration tools.
Anubis
The payload name changed across Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis and BERT deployments, but the operator kept returning to the same remote-access and exfiltration tools.
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