{"id":10541,"date":"2026-02-10T11:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/global-group-ransomware\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:03:33","slug":"global-group-ransomware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/global-group-ransomware\/","title":{"rendered":"Attackers Weaponize Windows Shortcut Files to Deploy Global Group Ransomware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Attackers Weaponize Windows Shortcut Files to Deploy Global Group Ransomware<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A high-volume phishing campaign leveraging the Phorpiex botnet has been distributing GLOBAL GROUP ransomware through weaponized Windows shortcut files. <\/p>\n<p>The attack begins with an&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gbhackers.com\/global-group-ransomware\/\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers Weaponize Windows Shortcut Files to Deploy Global Group Ransomware A high-volume phishing campaign leveraging the Phorpiex botnet has been distributing GLOBAL GROUP ransomware through weaponized Windows shortcut files. The attack begins with an&#8230; Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-10541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gbhackers","tag-gbhackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}