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Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage

April 5 2021 By BrianKrebs in Emsisoft, Fabian Wosar, Lawrence Abrams, Ransomware, rEvil, Security, The Coming Storm

Some of the top ransomware gangs are deploying a new pressure tactic to push more victim organizations into paying an extortion demand: Emailing the victim's customers and partners directly,...

Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo

October 28 2020 By BrianKrebs in Hold Security, Intel 471, Ransomware, RDP, rEvil, Security, Sodinokibi

In March 2020, KrebsOnSecurity alerted Swedish security giant Gunnebo Group that hackers had broken into its network and sold the access to a criminal group which specializes in deploying...

REvil ransomware crew dangles $1,000,000 cybercrime carrot

September 28 2020 By Paul Ducklin in Cybercrime, Law & order, Ransomware, rEvil, Security, Sodinokibi

When a company pays a multimillion dollar ransomware blackmail demand, where do you think the money goes?

GandCrab ransomware hacker arrested in Belarus

August 4 2020 By Paul Ducklin in GandCrab, Law & order, Ransomware, rEvil, Security, Sodinokibi

Suspect is alleged to have extorted more than 1000 people, mostly in India, US, Ukraine, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Russia.

This Service Helps Malware Authors Fix Flaws in their Code

May 18 2020 By BrianKrebs in A Little Sunshine, Cerber, GandCrab, Intel 471, Krober, Lebron, malware testing service, Ne'er-Do-Well News, RedBear, rEvil, Sodin, Sodinokibi, UNKN, upO, Vivalamuerte, Web Fraud 2.0

Almost daily now there is news about flaws in commercial software that lead to computers getting hacked and seeded with malware. But the reality is most malicious software also...