{"id":107764,"date":"2020-05-28T01:51:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/microsoft-warns-about-attacks-with-the-ponyfinal-ransomware"},"modified":"2020-05-28T01:51:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T08:51:14","slug":"microsoft-warns-about-attacks-with-the-ponyfinal-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/microsoft-warns-about-attacks-with-the-ponyfinal-ransomware","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft warns about attacks with the PonyFinal ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-warns-about-attacks-with-the-ponyfinal-ransomware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s security team has issued an advisory today warning organizations around the globe to deploy protections against a new strain of ransomware that has been in the wild over the past two months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPonyFinal is a Java-based ransomware that is deployed in human-operated ransomware attacks,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MsftSecIntel\/status\/1265674287404343297\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft said in a series of tweets<\/a> published today.<\/p>\n<p>Human-operated ransomware is a subsection of the ransomware category. In human-operated ransomware attacks, hackers breach corporate networks and deploy the ransomware themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s security team has issued an advisory today warning organizations around the globe to deploy protections against a new strain of ransomware that has been in the wild over the past two months. \u201cPonyFinal is a Java-based ransomware that is deployed in human-operated ransomware attacks,\u201d Microsoft said in a series of tweets published today. Human-operated [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}