{"id":12175,"date":"2026-04-17T06:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/qemu-abused-to-evade-detection-and-enable-ransomware-delivery\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T06:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:07:56","slug":"qemu-abused-to-evade-detection-and-enable-ransomware-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/qemu-abused-to-evade-detection-and-enable-ransomware-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"QEMU abused to evade detection and enable ransomware delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    QEMU abused to evade detection and enable ransomware delivery<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The use of hidden virtual machines (VMs) enables long-term access, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and PayoutsKing ransomware deployment<\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories:<\/strong> Threat Research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tags:<\/strong> virtual machine, QEMU, PayoutsKing, GOLD ENCOUNTER, CitrixBleed2<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sophos.com\/en-us\/blog\/qemu-abused-to-evade-detection-and-enable-ransomware-delivery\">Go to sophos<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QEMU abused to evade detection and enable ransomware delivery The use of hidden virtual machines (VMs) enables long-term access, credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and PayoutsKing ransomware deployment Categories: Threat Research Tags: virtual machine, QEMU, PayoutsKing, GOLD ENCOUNTER, CitrixBleed2 Go to sophos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-12175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sophos","tag-sophos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175"}],"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=12175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}