Hypervisor Jackpotting: CARBON SPIDER and SPRITE SPIDER Target ESXi Servers With Ransomware to Maximize Impact

Targeted large-scale ransomware campaigns, referred to as big game hunting (BGH), remained the primary eCrime threat to organizations across all sectors in 2020. The relentless volume and pace of these campaigns mean that some sophisticated BGH actors have not attracted much attention. Two such groups are SPRITE SPIDER, the operators of the Defray777 ransomware (aka Defray, Defray 2018, Target777, RansomX, ...