Cybercrime is a business. Professional criminals refine their processes, measure performance, and regularly evaluate the return on their investments. Every move is strategic. We see this time and time again with ransomware campaigns and throughout the underground.
Which is why the latest report from Joseph Cox at Motherboard is mind boggling. Joseph brings us the story of a hacker(s)—it’s unclear if there’s more than one, I’ll use the plural for simplicity—who are attempting to extort Apple into paying $100,000 for the “recovery” of millions of iCloud account.
