Researchers observed new snake ransomware that written in Golang targeting Windows users to encrypt the system files and remove the Volume Shadow Copies that the OS uses for backup.
Snake ransomware is a targeted campaign that contains a standard ransomware feature with some of the more complex functionalities.
Malware authors choose the
Golang language which is used to write some of the most recent ransomware families and utilized by some of the
RaaS (Ransomware as a Service) offerings since it is flexible for cross-platform and completely open-source programming language.
Researchers believe that the campaign has the potential to do serious and critical damage to an infected environment.
Snake ransomware targeting the specific platforms such as SCADA, enterprise management tools, system utilities and also some of the specific targeted applications include VMware Tools, Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Nimbus, Honeywell HMIWeb, FLEXnet,