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bert
BERT ransomware (also tracked as Water Pombero) first emerged in April 2025, rapidly targeting both Windows and Linux systems across Asia, Europe, and the U.S., with confirmed victims in healthcare, technology, electronics, and event services sectors. Its Windows variant employs a PowerShell-based loader that escalates privileges, disables Defender, UAC, and the firewall, then downloads the ransomware payload. The Linux version aggressively encrypts with up to 50 concurrent threads, forcibly shu
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- misp-galaxy 6b62bf40-7748-5eea-94e4-8ffdf5d5c3d6via misp-galaxy-ransomware
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