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Nearly $561,000 worth of Bitcoin, or less than a third of the demanded ransom, has already been sent by Tosan to IRLeaks' cryptocurrency wallet since both parties began negotiations in early August.

Attacks involved the creation of several ads redirecting to spoofed versions of Lowe's MyLowesLife employee portal in a bid to compromise credentials from current and former workers, according to a report from Malwarebytes Labs.

Intrusions leveraging the vulnerability have facilitated the distribution of not only the GOREVERSE reverse proxy server but also the Condi malware, the Mirai botnet variant Jenx, and four other cryptocurrency mining payloads.