A recent study found that 25% of all UK universities have experienced a ransomware attack in the last 10 years. Ransomware is evolving as we continuously see new tactics to evade detection and/or increase infection and encryption speed. A ransomware group has recently taken advantage of this and is using GDPR threats to try and extort victims. WastedLocker, known to be associated with the Russian Cybercrime Gang, has been on a wild spree over the last few months. It has been reported that it was found infecting dozens of US newspaper networks.”]
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/ransomware/2020/10/videobytes-ransomware-gets-wasted/