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The Week in Ransomware – November 13th 2020 – Extortion gone wild

Ransomware operations have begun new tactics this week to pressure their victims into paying a ransom. The largest attack this week was against Tawainese laptop maker Compal, who was hit by DoppelPaymer. Ragnar Locker hacked a Facebook advertiser’s account to run Facebook ads promoting their attack. Another new tactic announced by DarkSide is their plans to create a fault-tolerant distributed storage service based out of Iran or other “unrecognized republics”” The goal is to use this storage as a platform to leak victim’s data for six months.”

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-november-13th-2020-extortion-gone-wild/

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