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By injecting malicious bytecode into interpreters for VBScript, Python, and Lua, researchers found they can circumvent malicious code detection.

Law firms make the perfect target for extortion, so it's no wonder that ransomware attackers target them and demand multimillion dollar ransoms.

Researchers say the attacks are easy to perform, difficult to contact, nearly unrecognizable, and "entirely preventable."

The prolific ransomware group has shifted away from phishing as the method of entry into corporate networks, and is now using initial access brokers as well as its own tools to optimize its most recent attacks.