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Researchers from global security firm Sophos have detailed how a relatively new Windows ransomware group known as Atom Silo carried out an attack over two days, initially using a flaw in Atlassian's Confluence collaboration software.

Old sometimes is not gold, especially when it comes to ancient versions of ColdFusion running on versions of Windows that have reached their end-of-life, as the global security firm Sophos has demonstrated through its research into a server that was taken over by unknown actors using the Cring ransomware.

Windows ransomware known as LockBit, which made its presence known in 2019, has now matured and is using novel ways to escalate privileges by bypassing the User Account Control feature on Windows systems.