Malvertising leveraged to distribute Cactus ransomware

Malvertising schemes have been used by the Storm-0216 threat operation, also known as UNC2198 and Twisted Spider, to deploy the Danabot malware to achieve initial systems access before proceeding with the distribution of Cactus ransomware since last month, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

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