New samples of the Ekans ransomware have revealed how today's cyber attackers are using a variety of methods to compromise key industrial companies. Researchers from our friends at FortiGuard Labs have uncovered two samples of the Ekans ransomware strain that offer some additional insight into how the crypto-locking malware targets industrial control systems.[1]
Ekans, which is also referred to as Snake[2], was first identified in February 2020 and early reports indicated that it had been desi