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According to cybersecurity company Trend Micro, BlackByte is a ransomware group that has been building a name for itself since 2021. It had already gone after at least three US critical infrastructure sectors (government facilities, financial, and food and agriculture.)

A vulnerable anti-cheat driver for the Genshin Impact video game has been leveraged by a cybercrime actor to disable antivirus programs to facilitate the deployment of ransomware, according to findings from Trend Micro.

Location tracking is important to not just Kochava, but lots of agencies that collect data and then offer it to advertisers and vendors who want to provide a better user experience or feed information that might be of more interest to the user, says Jon Clay, vice president of Threat Intelligence at Trend Micro.

“The deep web is the portion of the Internet that for some reason is not indexed and therefore cannot be searched by search engines like Google,” said Jon Clay, VP of threat intelligence at globally distributed cybersecurity company Trend Micro. “The dark web is a part of the deep web and typically relies on darknets or networks where connections are made between trusted peers.”

Global cybersecurity provider Trend Micro predicts that Linux servers and embedded systems will be an increasing target for ransomware groups in the years to come.