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During his teenage years, Clark used various aliases while participating in online communities, gaining notoriety as a scammer in the "hardcore factions" Minecraft community. [2] In 2018, Graham joined OGUsers , a forum dedicated to selling, buying, and trading online accounts, and was banned after four days.
DarkSide uses intermediary hackers 26c3weq ("affiliates"). [16] It uses "ransomware-as-a-service" [4] [5] [6] — a model in which DarkSide grants its "affiliate" subscribers (who are screened via an interview) access to ransomware developed by DarkSide, in return for giving DarkSide a share of the ransom payments (apparently 25% for ransom payments under US$500,000 and 10% for ransom payments ...
The U.S. Department of State is upping the ante in its fight against ransomware by offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that helps identify or track down leaders of the notorious ...
So-called "threat actors" associated with BlackCat were observed to use "malvertising", an "SEO poisoning" technique" that uses advertising to trick users searching for applications like WinSCP to download and spread its malware; as Ravie Lakshmanan noted, writing for The Hacker News, the approach
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Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic published a bitcoin wallet report showing $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments were made to DarkSide or DarkSide affiliates over the last year, originating from 47 distinct wallets. According to a DarkTracer release of 2226 victim organizations since May 2019, 99 organizations have been infected with the ...
REvil and DarkSide use similarly structured ransom notes and the same code to check that the victim is not located in a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) country. [ 8 ] Cybersecurity experts believe REvil is an offshoot from a previous notorious, but now-defunct hacker gang, GandCrab. [ 9 ]
US national security officials are still scrambling to get to the bottom of this weekend's Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack that was believed to have been executed by a gang of Russian ...