Cyber Security
The Snake Attacks Holding the Industrial Sector Ransom
For years ransomware attacks are a significant threat to any organization, no matter its size, field of expertise, yearly revenue or geographical location. The year 2020 is no exception. Ransomware attacks became more sophisticated, crews operating them learned how to take better advantage of their presence in the victim’s network and new ransomware strains were brought into the world to run havoc and make their creators rich.
One such ransomware is Snake (aka Ekans). It became well known in January after its first sample was uploaded to VirusTotal. The initial sample, found by the MalwareHunterTeam crew, raised a lot of concern as the malware was designed to kill computer processes related to Industrial Control Systems, implying that it was built with victims from the industrial sector in mind. Unfortunately, this concern was justified as after a few months of relative silence, Snake operators deployed the ransomware in a series of targeted and devastating attacks. The crescendo was an attack on the Japanese car manufacturer Honda on June 8th, an attack that made Honda’s operations in Japan and Europe grind to a halt.
Fortunately, Deep Instinct prevents all versions of Snake ransomware. The ransomware is prevented pre-execution, using Deep Instinct’s deep learning-based static prevention engine, and during on-execution, using advanced ransomware behavioral protection.
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