{"id":123670,"date":"2021-06-10T19:23:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/emerging-ransomware-targets-dozens-of-businesses-worldwide"},"modified":"2021-06-10T19:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T02:23:18","slug":"emerging-ransomware-targets-dozens-of-businesses-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/emerging-ransomware-targets-dozens-of-businesses-worldwide","title":{"rendered":"Emerging Ransomware Targets Dozens of Businesses Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/emerging-ransomware-targets-dozens-of-businesses-worldwide2.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An emerging ransomware strain in the threat landscape claims to have breached 30 organizations in just four months since it went operational, riding on the coattails of a notorious ransomware syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>First observed in February 2021, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/prometheus-ransomware\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prometheus<\/a>\u201d is an offshoot of another well-known ransomware variant called <a href=\"https:\/\/unit42.paloaltonetworks.com\/thanos-ransomware\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thanos<\/a>, which was previously deployed against state-run organizations in the Middle East and North Africa last year.<\/p>\n<p>The affected entities are believed to be government, financial services, manufacturing, logistics, consulting, agriculture, healthcare services, insurance agencies, energy and law firms in the U.S., U.K., and a dozen more countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America, according to new research published by Palo Alto Networks\u2019 Unit 42 threat intelligence team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An emerging ransomware strain in the threat landscape claims to have breached 30 organizations in just four months since it went operational, riding on the coattails of a notorious ransomware syndicate. First observed in February 2021, \u201cPrometheus\u201d is an offshoot of another well-known ransomware variant called Thanos, which was previously deployed against state-run organizations in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,1497,45,1506,1490,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-energy","category-finance","category-food","category-government","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123670","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}