- Unit 42 SAW 4L4MD4R is deployed via a multitude
- Crooks ask for $ 500 Bitcoin
- Toolsll is a Microsoft SharePoint Patated Server Bug at the end of July
The risk for companies that have not corrected the vulnerability of tool puncture continues to grow after new reports suggest that ransomware actors also join the operating part.
Researchers from the Palo Alto Network cybersecurity branch, Unit 42, said they observed a threatening actor known as 4L4MD4R using a llaire to access and try to deploy the cryptor.
Toolshell is a nickname for de -eérialization of the vulnerability of unreliable data, recently discovered in the instances of Microsoft SharePoint server on site. It is followed as CVE-2025-53770, and would have enabled the execution of not authenticated remote code, giving attackers the control of not corrected systems simply by sending a manufactured request. He received a gravity score of 9.8 / 10 (criticism) and was corrected in late July 2025.
4L4MD4R joined the cat
Less than two weeks after Microsoft expressed emergency mitigation, safety researchers began to notice an increase in attacks and victims of hundreds.
“There are many more, because not all the vectors of attack have left artifacts that we could scrutinize,” warned eye security at the time.
Many high-level organizations have been victims of different cyber attacks thanks to this flaw, including the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Ministry of Education, the Florida Revenue Department, the General Assembly of Rhode Island and government networks in Europe and the Middle East.
Now ransomware players also jump on the Tool Pavilion train. According to unit 42, 4L4MD4R is based on the Mauri870 Open Source code. He was spotted on July 27, when the researchers investigated a failed attack.
“Analysis of the 4L4MD4R payroll load revealed that it was filled with UPX and written in Golang. During the execution, the sample decrypts an encrypted payload in memory, allocates the memory to load the decrypted PE file and creates a new wire to execute it,” said unit 42.
The identity, or possible national affiliation, of the group is unknown at the moment. However, the researchers said that the hackers demanded a payment of 0.005 Bitcoin, which results in about $ 500.
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