{"id":19928,"date":"2022-08-24T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/news-13661\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:00:12","slug":"news-13661","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/news-13661\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Actor Abuses Genshin Impact Anti-Cheat Driver to Kill Antivirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Ryan Soliven| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trendmicro.com\/en_us\/research\/22\/h\/ransomware-actor-abuses-genshin-impact-anti-cheat-driver-to-kill-antivirus.html\" target=\"bwo\" >http:\/\/feeds.trendmicro.com\/TrendMicroSimplySecurity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Ryan Soliven| Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We investigate mhyprot2.sys, a vulnerable anti-cheat driver for the popular role-playing game Genshin Impact. The driver is currently being abused by a ransomware actor to kill antivirus processes and services for mass-deploying ransomware.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10378,10413],"tags":[24512,24527,24528,24520,24511],"class_list":["post-19928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-trendmicro","tag-trend-micro-research-articles-news-reports","tag-trend-micro-research-endpoints","tag-trend-micro-research-exploits-vulnerabilities","tag-trend-micro-research-ransomware","tag-trend-micro-research-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}