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A new ransomware operation named Kyber is targeting enterprise Windows servers and VMware ESXi infrastructure with two distinct variants analysed by Rapid7. The Windows variant written in Rust implements genuine Kyber1024 post-quantum key encapsulation; the ESXi variant falsely markets the same capability while using ChaCha8 and RSA-4096. Both variants share Tor-based ransom infrastructure and have been deployed simultaneously on the same networks.