Ransom Your Employer Email Scam Suspect Arrested

By Deeba Ahmed The scam involved attempts to hire insiders to install DemonWare ransomware on their employer's IT systems. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ransom Your Employer Email Scam Suspect Arrested...

Nigerian Threat Actors Solicit Employees to Deploy Ransomware for Cut of Profits

Researchers have discovered a Nigerian threat actor trying to turn an organization’s employees into insider threats by soliciting them to deploy ransomware for a cut of the ransom profits. Researchers at Abnormal Security identified and blocked a number of emails sent earlier this month to some i...

Cybercrime Group Asking Insiders for Help in Planting Ransomware

A Nigerian threat actor has been observed attempting to recruit employees by offering them to pay $1 million in bitcoins to deploy Black Kingdom ransomware on companies' networks as part of an insider threat scheme. "The sender tells the employee that if they're able to deploy ransomware on a...