White Rabbit is a new family of ransomware exploits that has already been discovered making an attack on at least one major U.S. bank last month, according to cybersecurity researchers at Trend Micro.
Cybercriminals could adopt and modify the code included in a proof-of-concept ransomware program in order to launch their own attacks, warns Trend Micro. (Yvon Liu/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)
A developer published via GitHub a proof-of-concept (POC) ransomware program featuring strong compatibility with the post-exploitation tool Cobalt Strike, open-source coding, and extensionless encryption.
The author claims the program, dubbed Povlsomware, is designed to be an educational tool for testing anti-virus protections; however, itâs possible that cybercriminals could adopt and modify the code in order to launch their own attacks, warns Trend Micro, which detailed the ransomware in a new company blog post this week.