Ransomware continues its siege on organizations worldwide, with new variants released every day and attacks continuing to be reported. The biggest news this week is the information about a hacking toolkit that makes it easy for inexperienced hackers to compromise a network and deploy a ransom. Avaddon ransomware is the latest cybercrime operation to launch a data leak site that will be used to publish the stolen data of victims who do not pay a ransom demand. A city in Colorado, USA, forced to pay $45,000 after the City’s devices were encrypted in July, and they were unable to restore necessary files from backup.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-week-in-ransomware-august-14th-2020-crime-made-easy/