Because defacing websites is a waste of time and unsatisfactory, from a financial point of view, an Indonesian hacker has turned to writing his own PHP-based ransomware, which he's now deploying on the websites he was previously defacing.
The hacker in question is an Indonesian teen that goes by the name of ShorTcut (or Shor7cut), a member of a hacking crew named Indonesia Defacer Tersakiti.
The hacker's new activities came to light when Fortinet researchers were investigating a website on which someone installed a PHP-based ransomware called JapanLocker. Researchers named it so because it was asking victims to contact the crooks for payment via the address [email protected].
Hacker is Indonesian, has nothing to do with "Japan"
While searching for clues on this new ransomware, Fortinet resea...
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Hacker Goes From Defacing Websites to Installing PHP Ransomware
Because defacing websites is a waste of time and unsatisfactory, from a financial point of view, an Indonesian hacker has turned to writing his own PHP-based ransomware, which he's now deploying on the websites he was previously…
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title: Detect Exploitation - Hacker Goes From Defacing Websites to Installing PHP Ransomware
id: f4aed53f-b84f-4627-8cd3-15ce560aff7b
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-26
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_access
- attack.t1486Syntax validiert (0 Fehler)
rule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-26"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "Hacker Goes From Defacing Webs" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}Syntax validiert (0 Fehler)
index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Hacker Goes From Defacing Websites to In")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countSyntax validiert (0 Fehler)
message: "*Hacker Goes From Defacing Websites to In*"Syntax validiert (0 Fehler)
CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Hacker Goes From Defacing Websites to In"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
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