Cl0p ransomware gang claims first victims of the MOVEit vulnerability

On Friday June 2, 2023 we reported about a MOVEit Transfer vulnerability that was actively being exploited. If your organization uses MOVEit Transfer and you havent patched yet, it really is time to move it. Excuse the bad pun, but yesterday we saw the first victims of this vulnerability come...

U.S. Offers $10 Million Bounty for Capture of Notorious Russian Ransomware Operator

A Russian national has been charged and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ for launching ransomware attacks against "thousands of victims" in the country and across the world. Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, the 30-year-old individual in...

Is There Really Such a Thing as a Low-Paid Ransomware Operator?

ARCHIVED STORY Is There Really Such a Thing as a Low-Paid Ransomware Operator? By Thibault Seret · October 18, 2021 Introduction Going by recent headlines you could be forgiven for thinking all ransomware operators are raking in millions of ill-gotten dollars each year from their nefarious...