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Clop (sometimes written “Cl0p”) is a cybercriminal organization known for its multilevel extortion techniques and global malware distribution. It has extorted more than $500 million in ransom payments, targeting major organizations worldwide.
Conti is malware developed and first used by the Russia-based hacking group "Wizard Spider" in December, 2019. [1] [2] It has since become a full-fledged ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation used by numerous threat actor groups to conduct ransomware attacks.
A cyberattack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system.
It is called cryptoviral extortion and it was inspired by the fictional facehugger in the movie Alien. [16] Cryptoviral extortion is the following three-round protocol carried out between the attacker and the victim. [1] [attacker→victim] The attacker generates a key pair and places the corresponding public key in the malware. The malware is ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. officials on Tuesday seized digital extortion websites associated with the notorious "Blackcat" ransomware gang, sparking a threat from the hackers to escalate their ...
Play (also Play Ransomware or PlayCrypt) is a hacker group responsible for ransomware extortion attacks on companies and governmental institutions. The group emerged in 2022 and attacked targets in the United States, [1] Brazil, [2] Argentina, [2] Germany, [3] Belgium [3] and Switzerland.
Aside from extortion, federal court records accuse Iza of hiding millions of dollars from tax collectors by failing to report income and funneling money through shell companies with co-conspirators.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to U.S. criminal ...