Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2022-03-31 00:00:00
Affected organization: Undisclosed organization
Affected country: Undetermined
Industry: Undetermined
Event type: Disruptive
Event subtype: Data Attack
Motive: Financial
Actor: ALPHVM
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Russian Federation
Description: Researchers from Forescout reveal the detail of a BlackCat ransomware attack during an attack exploiting an Internet-exposed SonicWall firewall to gain initial access to the network and then moving to and encrypting a VMware ESXi virtual farm.