A Busy Agenda: Darktrace's Detection of Qilin Ransomware as a Service Operator
This blog breaks down how Darktrace detected and analyzed Qilin, a Ransomware-as-a-Service group behind recent high-impact attacks. You’ll see how Qilin affiliates customize attacks with flexible encryption, process termination, and double-extortion techniques, as well as why its cross-platform builds in Rust and Golang make it especially evasive. Darktrace highlights three real-world cases where its AI identified likely Qilin activity across customer environments, offering insights into how behavioral detection can spot novel ransomware before disruption occurs. Readers will gain a clear view of Qilin’s toolkit, tactics, and how self-learning defense adapts to these evolving threats.