VantaBlack Ransomware Locked Department Shares in South Africa: How Teams Got Their Files Back

It started with a familiar complaint: “The shared folder is acting weird.” In a South Africa office, department shares that normally held contracts, HR templates, customer documents, and monthly reports suddenly stopped opening. A few users saw files renamed with an unfamiliar extension .35RUT. Minutes later, the same directories showed a ransom note named !HOW […]

