CrowdStrike cybersecurity experts say Sprite Spider is poised to become one of the biggest ransomware threat actors of 2021. Sprite Spider’s rise as a sophisticated threat is not surprising given that it, like many other organized ransomware gangs are filled with hackers who are often gainfully employed by nation-state threat actors. The gang can often escape detection primarily because its code looks benign, hiding in open-source projects such as Notepad++. The only thing Sprite Spider writes to disk is Vatet, making it harder for analysts to track them during incident response.”]