GhostLock Attack Leverages Windows file-sharing to Lock Files Access Like Ransomware

Traditional ransomware disrupts organizations by encrypting data and demanding payment for decryption keys. However, a newly disclosed technique called GhostLock demonstrates a fundamentally different availability attack that achieves the same business disruption without writing a single encrypted byte to disk. Discovered by Kim Dvash, an Offensive Security Team Leader, GhostLock exploits standard Windows file-sharing behavior […]

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