Researchers discovered a new Sodin Ransomware (also known as Sodinokibi) that exploits the Windows Elevation privilege vulnerability resides in the Win32k component. Victims were located in the Asia-Pacific region: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and South Korea. Researchers named the ransomware as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Sodin that is using the vulnerability (CVE-2018-8453) in Win32K to escalate the highest level of privileges. The vulnerability initially reported by Kaspersky and the Microsoft fixed this vulnerability was fixed on August 17, 2018.”]
Source: https://gbhackers.com/sodin-ransomware-exploits-windows/