This Ransomware Just Switched Programming Languages From Go To Rust Here S Why
Hive emerged in June 2021 and was spotlighted by the FBI in an alert two months later. In November, European electronics retail giant MediaMarkt also got stung by Hive. It’s another ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) double-extortion gang that has recently been targeting vulnerable Microsoft Exchange Servers, vulnerable RDP servers, compromised VPN credentials, and phishing to deploy their ransomware and steal leak-worthy information. Hive’s Rust migration has been underway for a few months as it adopted lessons from BlackCat ransomware, which is also written in Rust....