{"id":219412,"date":"2025-08-05T04:12:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ransomware-gangs-join-attacks-targeting-microsoft-sharepoint-servers"},"modified":"2025-08-05T04:12:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:12:34","slug":"ransomware-gangs-join-attacks-targeting-microsoft-sharepoint-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/ransomware-gangs-join-attacks-targeting-microsoft-sharepoint-servers","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware gangs join attacks targeting Microsoft SharePoint servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ransomware-gangs-join-attacks-targeting-microsoft-sharepoint-servers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ransomware gangs have recently joined ongoing attacks targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability chain, part of a broader exploitation campaign that has already led to the breach of at least 148 organizations worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks\u2019 Unit 42 have discovered a 4L4MD4R ransomware variant, based on open-source <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mauri870\/ransomware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mauri870<\/a> code, while analyzing incidents involving this SharePoint exploit chain (dubbed \u201cToolShell\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The ransomware was detected on July 27 after discovering a malware loader that downloads and executes the ransomware from theinnovationfactory[.]it (145.239.97[.]206).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware gangs have recently joined ongoing attacks targeting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability chain, part of a broader exploitation campaign that has already led to the breach of at least 148 organizations worldwide. Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks\u2019 Unit 42 have discovered a 4L4MD4R ransomware variant, based on open-source Mauri870 code, while analyzing incidents involving [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219412","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=219412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}