Water and telecom operators hit as ransomware abuses trusted systems
Daily Cyber News: Water and telecom operators hit as ransomware abuses trusted systems
Water, telecom, government and education organizations face operational disruption as Warlock ransomware continues exploiting on-premises SharePoint systems. During the past two months, the campaign compromised at least four organizations: a water utility, a telecommunications provider, a regional government body and a university.
Key context: The attackers planted web shells, extracted machine keys and used legitimate cloud and remote-access services to make their activity look more routine.
Additional detail: This shows how one exposed collaboration server can become the starting point for domain-wide disruption.
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