{"id":268,"date":"2024-11-29T02:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T02:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/mimic-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T02:03:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T02:03:29","slug":"mimic-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/29\/mimic-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimic ransomware: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Mimic ransomware: what you need to know<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>What makes Mimic particularly unusual is that it exploits the API of a legitimate Windows file search tool (&#8220;Everything&#8221; by Voidtools) to quickly locate files for encryption.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the threat in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripwire.com\/state-of-security\/mimic-ransomware-what-you-need-know\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimic ransomware: what you need to know What makes Mimic particularly unusual is that it exploits the API of a legitimate Windows file search tool (&#8220;Everything&#8221; by Voidtools) to quickly locate files for encryption. Find out more about the threat in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,54,155,258,231,131],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conti","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-malware","category-ransomware","category-vulnerability","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268"}],"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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}