Sodinokibi Ransomware operators are threatening to leak a companys dirty financial secrets because they did not pay the ransom. They are also analyzing the exfiltrated data searching for damaging information to use against the victims. The move is shocking and brings the ransomware attack to a higher level of threat, we can expect that other cybercrime gangs will adopt a similar strategy to blackmail the victims and force them to pay ransom. Other groups, such as the Nemty and BitPyLock gangs adopted the same technique in January 2020.”]
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