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Windows CreateFileW API Flaw Could Let Attackers Lock SMB Files at Scale

Windows CreateFileW API Flaw Could Let Attackers Lock SMB Files at Scale

The multi-billion-dollar ransomware defence industry operates on a fundamental assumption: to cause catastrophic operational damage, malicious actors must write corrupted data to a disk. However, a newly disclosed attack technique, GhostLock, completely invalidates this foundational premise by demonstrating how threat actors can paralyze enterprise file systems without encrypting a single byte. Published in May 2026 […]
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