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Updated 08/27 with additional ransomware threat information from Sophos X-Ops, has now been caught stealing credentials stored within Google Chrome browsers in a surprise new twist to the ransomware attack threat.in the nasty cybercrime game. Running a Ransomware-as-a-Service criminal operation, Qilin is known to date back only as far as October 2022.
"The attackers clearly understood the value of the credentials being stored in Chrome and took sophisticated steps to deploy malware across the organisation,” Glenn Chisholm, chief product officer at Obsidian Security, said. “Beyond the ransomware tactics, this would give the attackers broad access to any application where credentials have been stored.”
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