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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking down the threats and vulnerabilities,

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us. On and around early May, around May 2nd, Artif Wolf began monitoring deployment of the new ransomware variant referred to as as fog.

What we saw was that across victim organizations, most of them were in the U.S.

With about 80% of the victims in the education sector

and about 20% in the recreation sector.

That's Carrie Schaefer Page, vice president of digital. sector. today is titled Lost in the Fog a New Ransomware Threat.

So the threat actors showed an interest in rapid encryption of

the M storage data and then ransom payment for

decryption of the said data.

Right, so this is pretty common but what we didn't see is the actual exfiltration.

And something I should point out too when it comes to the education sector,

this is often a understaffed and underfunded sector right so they don't have a lot of

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