Do Son Cisco Talos reports Kraken, a HelloKitty successor, is a cross-platform RaaS targeting Windows/ESXi. The malware uniquely benchmarks CPU/IO to optimize encryption speed and uses Cloudflared/SSHFS for persistence.
Benchmarking
3DMark is now natively available for macOS, offering accurate performance benchmarking for Apple Silicon Macs with Wild Life Extreme, Solar Bay, and Steel Nomad tests.