{"id":123368,"date":"2021-06-03T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/exchange-servers-targeted-by-epsilon-red-malware"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T00:23:33","slug":"exchange-servers-targeted-by-epsilon-red-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/exchange-servers-targeted-by-epsilon-red-malware","title":{"rendered":"Exchange Servers Targeted by \u2018Epsilon Red\u2019 Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exchange-servers-targeted-by-epsilon-red-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>REvil threat actors may be behind a set of PowerShell scripts developed for encryption and weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities in corporate networks, the ransom note suggests.<\/p>\n<p>Threat actors have deployed new ransomware on the back of a set of PowerShell scripts developed for making encryption, exploiting flaws in unpatched Exchange Servers to attack the corporate network, according to recent research.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from security firm <a href=\" https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophos<\/a> detected the new ransomware, called Epsilon Red, in an investigation of an attack on a U.S.-based company in the hospitality sector, Sophos Principal Researcher <a href=\" https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/author\/andrew-brandt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Brandt<\/a> wrote in a <a href=\" https:\/\/news.sophos.com\/en-us\/2021\/05\/28\/epsilonred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> published online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REvil threat actors may be behind a set of PowerShell scripts developed for encryption and weaponized to exploit vulnerabilities in corporate networks, the ransom note suggests. Threat actors have deployed new ransomware on the back of a set of PowerShell scripts developed for making encryption, exploiting flaws in unpatched Exchange Servers to attack the corporate [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1625],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123368","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}