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2020 Prediction: Ransomware to become more dangerous than ever

December 19, 2019

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In November, cyber crooks told services company Allied Universal that they would make its files public if the company didn’t pay a ransom. Allied refused and the hackers stuck to their threat, releasing a portion of the data onto the open internet. The same gang has now published a website issuing similar threats to other victims that have refused to pay ransom. If their demands are met, other ransomware gangs will likely replicate the strategy to increase their chances of getting paid, or to maximize their profits.

The gang behind Maze ransomware recently erected a website (found by security reporter Brian Krebs) listing the company names and websites of eight victims of their malware. Besides an infection with the same ransomware strain, all these entities have one thing in common: they all refused to pay up, deciding to recover the hard way (i.e. from backups).

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