March 26, 2024 at 04:28AM
The blog entry provides a summary of the Agenda ransomware’s new propagation methods targeting VMWare vCenter and ESXi servers using custom PowerShell scripts embedded in its latest Rust variant. The ransomware is distributed globally and has been increasingly detected by cybersecurity organizations. The threat actors are utilizing various defense evasion techniques and lateral movement tools to expand their impact. The article concludes with security recommendations and details on threat hunting queries within Vision One.
From the meeting notes, it is clear that the Agenda ransomware group is active and continuously developing new tactics to infect victims globally. They have recently been observed using a custom PowerShell script to propagate to VMware vCenter and ESXi servers, potentially impacting virtual machines and entire virtual infrastructures.
Moreover, the ransomware group has been leveraging various tools and techniques for execution, lateral movement, impact, defense evasion, and exploitation for defense evasion.
The meeting notes also include valuable insights into the Agenda ransomware’s command-line arguments, lateral movement tactics, impact strategies, defense evasion techniques, and recommendations for organizations to protect themselves from such threats.
Finally, the notes provide a Vision One hunting query and an indicators of compromise (IoC) list for threat hunting purposes.
If further clarification or specific actions need to be taken based on these meeting notes, please let me know how I can assist you.