{"id":20077,"date":"2026-04-28T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/vect-2-0-ransomware-irreversibly-destroys-files-over-131kb-on-windows-linux-esxi-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:01:00","slug":"vect-2-0-ransomware-irreversibly-destroys-files-over-131kb-on-windows-linux-esxi-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/vect-2-0-ransomware-irreversibly-destroys-files-over-131kb-on-windows-linux-esxi-infothehackernews-com-the-hacker-news\/","title":{"rendered":"VECT 2.0 Ransomware Irreversibly Destroys Files Over 131KB on Windows, Linux, ESXi info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants that renders recovery impossible even for the threat actors.<br \/>\nThe fact that VECT&#8217;s locker permanently destroys large files rather than encrypting them means even victims who opt to<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/vect-20-ransomware-irreversibly.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Threat hunters are warning that the cybercriminal operation known as VECT 2.0 acts more like a wiper than a ransomware due to a critical flaw in its encryption implementation across Windows, Linux, and ESXi variants that renders recovery impossible even for the threat actors. The fact that VECT&#8217;s locker permanently destroys large files rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sekuritasit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}