Using Shodan Images to Hunt Down Ransomware Groups

**Executive summary:** This blog demonstrates using Shodan to discover exposed internet-facing infrastructure abused by ransomware actors—showing numerous unauthenticated VNC instances, screenshots of attacker commands (PowerShell, bitsadmin, cmd, FTP, nslookup), and linked GandCrab/REvil indicators—while offering mapping to MITRE ATT&CK and pragmatic defensive guidance.