Collaborate Disseminate
By Deeba Ahmed
The scam involved attempts to hire insiders to install DemonWare ransomware on their employer’s IT systems.
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Ransomware operators have taken their profession’s profitability to new heights in the last couple years by outsourcing their work with the “ransomware-as-a-service” model, in which hackers lease out their malware in exchange for shares of the resulting extortion payments. Now, a cyber firm has found a ransomware operator going one step further: asking prospective victim companies’ personnel to deploy ransomware on their behalf, then take a cut of the proceeds. Abnormal Security on Thursday said it recently blocked a batch of emails to its customers that solicited recipients to infect their employers’ networks with ransomware. Researchers set up a fake identity to communicate with the would-be ransomware/insider scheme mastermind — who went by the screen name “Pablo” — under the ruse that the persona would do Pablo’s criminal bidding. The incident, which occurred in mid-August, marks another tactical swerve in the ever-shifting world of ransomware techniques, and if Pablo’s to […]
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