How middlemen are giving ransomware gangs more attack options
The last six months have seen damaging ransomware attacks on two multibillion-dollar IT firms, Conduent and Cognizant, with clients all over the world. The incidents locked computers across the companies, cut into revenue and required days, if not weeks, of clean up. A report published Monday by consulting giant Accenture warns that the kind of criminal groups behind those attacks have more options than ever for accessing corporate networks thanks to a thriving market for outsourced hacking. Accenture researchers are tracking more the 25 regular “network access sellers,” or people who specialize in breaching an organization’s networks and handing off that access to the highest bidder. The access sellers have frequented the same underground forums as the people involved with prolific strains of ransomware like NetWalker and Maze, the latter which was used against Cognizant. “Network access selling has progressed from a niche underground offering throughout 2017 to a central pillar of criminal underground […]
The post How middlemen are giving ransomware gangs more attack options appeared first on CyberScoop.
Continue reading How middlemen are giving ransomware gangs more attack options