{"id":4069,"date":"2025-05-20T07:03:47","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/ransomware-gangs-use-skitnet-malware-html\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T07:03:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T07:03:47","slug":"ransomware-gangs-use-skitnet-malware-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/ransomware-gangs-use-skitnet-malware-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Gangs Use Skitnet Malware for Stealthy Data Theft and Remote Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ransomware Gangs Use Skitnet Malware for Stealthy Data Theft and Remote Access<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Several ransomware actors are using a malware called Skitnet as part of their post-exploitation efforts to steal sensitive data and establish remote control over compromised hosts.<br \/>\n&#8220;Skitnet has been sold on underground forums like RAMP since April 2024,&#8221; Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT told The Hacker News. &#8220;However, since early 2025, we have observed multiple ransomware operators using it<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/05\/ransomware-gangs-use-skitnet-malware.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware Gangs Use Skitnet Malware for Stealthy Data Theft and Remote Access Several ransomware actors are using a malware called Skitnet as part of their post-exploitation efforts to steal sensitive data and establish remote control over compromised hosts. &#8220;Skitnet has been sold on underground forums like RAMP since April 2024,&#8221; Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069"}],"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=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}