WastedLocker is one of the latest examples of adversaries’ continued use of lateral movement and privilege escalation to maximize the damage caused by ransomware. The use of “big-game hunting” continues to cause significant operational and financial damages to organizations around the globe. This approach is sometimes referred to as “big game hunting” and allows adversaries to increase the amount of the ransom they are demanding, often resulting in ransom demands for hundreds of thousands of dollars of dollars or more to recover infected systems. Cisco Talos has observed the threat actor behind Wastedlocker using within target environments for the purposes of maximizing their sphere of influence within the network.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2020/07/wastedlocker-emerges.html