Ransom Gangs Emailing Victim Customers for Leverage -- April 5, 2021
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, warning that their data will be leaked to the dark web unless they can convince the victim firm to pay up.
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Fabian Wosar, chief technology officer at computer security firm Emsisoft, said the direct appeals to victim customers is a natural extension of other advertising efforts by the ransomware gangs, which recently included using hacked Facebook accounts to post victim shaming advertisements.
Wosar said Clop isn’t the only ransomware gang emailing victim customers.
“Clop likes to do it and I think REvil started as well,” Wosar said.
Earlier this month, Bleeping Computer reported that the REvil ransomware operation was planning on launching crippling distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against victims, or making VOIP calls to victims’ customers to apply further pressure.
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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/04/ransom-gangs-emailing-victim-customers-for-leverage/