Published on: 2025-10-15 11:55:10
The Black Basta ransomware operation created an automated brute-forcing framework dubbed 'BRUTED' to breach edge networking devices like firewalls and VPNs. The framework has enabled BlackBasta to streamline initial network access and scale ransomware attacks on vulnerable internet-exposed endpoints. The discovery of BRUTED comes from EclecticIQ researcher Arda Büyükkaya following an in-depth examination of the ransomware gang's leaked internal chat logs. Several reports of large-scale brute-
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