Overview

Paladion’s Cyber Labs discovered the DogHousePower ransomware that specifically targets web servers and database servers running on the Windows Server operating system. The ransomware targets a known vulnerability – CVE-2017-5638 in Apache Struts 2.

Download the paper to understand the steps that DogHousePower takes to fully compromise an affected host, their demand for ransom, and how they might expand into cross-platform implementation in the near future.