Cerber ransomware strikes Linux. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 27 April 2024

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Summary

Christopher Doman, Co-Founder and CTO at Cado Security, is talking about their research on "Cerber Ransomware: Dissecting the three heads." This research delves into Cerber ransomware being deployed onto servers running the Confluence application via the CVE-2023-22518 exploit. The research states "Cerber emerged and was at the peak of its activity around 2016, and has since only occasional campaigns, most recently targeting the aforementioned Confluence vulnerability." The research can be found here: Cerber Ransomware: Dissecting the three heads

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1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
1:32.2	down the threats and vulnerabilities,
1:34.3	solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:40.2	Thanks for joining us. We're working with a couple of customers that were hit with the window side of this exploitation.
1:51.0	It's had some confident servers attacked.
1:53.8	And then as the team, researching through,
1:55.9	they saw there's also Linux variant as well
1:57.8	and that kind of peak their interest.
2:00.1	That's Christopher Domen, co-founder and CTO at Cato Security.
2:04.4	The research we're discussing today is titled Surber Ransomware,
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