A ransomware variant called Settra has been used in attacks against retail and manufacturing organizations, according to Huntress research summarized by Infosecurity Magazine. The researchers observed incidents in July and September and said there is not yet enough evidence to characterize Settra as a ransomware-as-a-service operation.
In the reported cases, attackers used remote monitoring and management tooling for persistent access, disabled recovery options and, in one incident, brought a vulnerable driver to the target environment. The activity also included clearing Windows event logs, disabling the Windows Recovery Environment and attempting to make deleted data harder to recover.
Huntress could not confirm the initial-access vector for the two incidents. That uncertainty matters: the described actions are post-compromise behavior and should not be read as proof of a specific intrusion path.
Defenders can use the report to prioritize monitoring for unauthorized RMM deployment, recovery-environment changes, suspicious driver installation, destructive use of native Windows utilities and abnormal encryption behavior. Tested backups, endpoint telemetry and response playbooks remain central controls when ransomware operators try to impair recovery.