The Hacker News published A new ransomware family called 3AM has emerged in the wild after it was detected in a single incident in which an unidentified affiliate deployed the strain following an unsuccessful attempt to deliver LockBit (attributed to Bitwise Spider or Syrphid) in the target network.
"3AM is written in Rust and appears to be a completely new malware family," the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
"The ransomware attempts to stop multiple services on the infected computer before it begins encrypting files. Once encryption is complete, it attempts to delete Volume Shadow (VSS) copies." Read More..