Microsoft has issued an advisory on another zero-day flaw that is part of the class of bugs that make up PrintNightmare, a series of remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting Windows Print Spooler. In July, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a directive for federal agencies to immediately patch the flaws. The Vice Society gang is targeting small and midsized organizations with a double extortion tactic, which includes encrypting victims’ files and exfiltrating data and threatening to publish that information on a darknet data leak site unless the victim pays a ransom.”]
Source: https://www.bankinfosecurity.com/ransomware-gangs-try-to-exploit-printnightmare-flaws-a-17285