Threat actor adds advanced ‘EDR killer’ tools to ransomware-as-a-service platform

One of the world’s top ransomware groups has given its criminal affiliates access to advanced tools capable of successfully disabling many of today’s enterprise endpoint detection and response (EDR) products, new research by security company ESET has found. The group in question is The Gentlemen , which, since its appearance last year using this moniker, has become one of the most successful ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platforms thanks to a business model that gives affiliates an unusually ge