{"id":209748,"date":"2025-03-26T06:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-vanhelsing-ransomware-targets-windows-arm-esxi-systems"},"modified":"2025-03-26T06:12:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:12:00","slug":"new-vanhelsing-ransomware-targets-windows-arm-esxi-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/new-vanhelsing-ransomware-targets-windows-arm-esxi-systems","title":{"rendered":"New VanHelsing ransomware targets Windows, ARM, ESXi systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-vanhelsing-ransomware-targets-windows-arm-esxi-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new multi-platform ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation named VanHelsing has emerged, targeting Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi systems.<\/p>\n<p>VanHelsing was first promoted on underground cybercrime platforms on March 7, offering experienced affiliates a free pass to join while mandating a deposit of $5,000 from less experienced threat actors.<\/p>\n<p>The new ransomware operation was first documented by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyfirma.com\/research\/vanhelsing-ransomware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CYFIRMA<\/a> late last week, while <a href=\"https:\/\/research.checkpoint.com\/2025\/vanhelsing-new-raas-in-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Check Point Research<\/a> performed a more in-depth analysis published yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new multi-platform ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation named VanHelsing has emerged, targeting Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi systems. VanHelsing was first promoted on underground cybercrime platforms on March 7, offering experienced affiliates a free pass to join while mandating a deposit of $5,000 from less experienced threat actors. The new ransomware operation was first documented [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209748","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=209748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}