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New INC ransomware targets U.S. healthcare sector

A warning from Microsoft about a financially motivated threat actor who is using INC ransomware against the

U.S. health sector for the first time. The group has been given the name Vanilla Tempest. In a series of posts on X,

Microsoft describes its campaign as “receiving hand-offs from GootLoader infections by the threat actor Storm-0494, before deploying tools like the Supper backdoor, the legitimate AnyDesk remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, and the MEGA data synchronization tool.” Following this, “the attackers proceed…