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Subscribe to TechRepublic Top 5 on YouTube for all the latest tech advice for business pros from Tom Merritt. And the data itself is useful at getting a handle on what the threats out there are. It’s not reassuring to see the large amount of money going to ransomware, but if you need help making the case of why it’s important to prepare for it, maybe this helps. A new project, Ransomwhere, aims to put a dollar figure on the profit-driven attacks that have become a headache for businesses, governments and non-profits around the globe. Customized versions of MountLocker from Astro Locker and XingLocker are also out there. It’s been used more often against Biotech companies recently. This ransomware effort has been recently updated to better evade security. $4.2 million in bitcoin to MountLocker.It has been used against Portugal’s Energy Utility, the gaming company Capcom and more recently, DRAM and NAND flash maker ADATA. $4.5 million in bitcoin to RagnarLocker. Jack Cable of Krebs Stamos Group launches Ransomwhere, a crowdsourced ransomware payment tracker the site is already tracking 32M+ in ransom payments.On May 14, 2021, Darkside announced it had lost access to its payment server, blog and funds. Its malware shares a lot of code with REvil’s. The attack against the Colonial Pipeline system is attributed to Darkside as is an attack against Toshiba. However, on July 13, 2021, REvil infrastructure shut down. Their highest profile attack was against the Casey desktop management service, but they also attacked the U.S. They’re not the only one that offers ransomware as a service but they were one of the most successful at it.

$12.1 million in bitcoin to REvil / Sodinokibi.

The attack against Ireland’s Health Service is attributed to Conti. Cable, who besides his college studies works as a security architect at the Krebs-Stamos Group consultancy and a hacker at the Defense Department’s Defense Digital Service, said he will head the crowdsourcing project in his spare time. The group behind Conti may be the same organization behind the Ryuk ransomware.

So, who’s getting the most ransom money? As of the writing of this script, here are the top five. SEE: How to manage passwords: Best practices and security tips (free PDF) (TechRepublic) The full database is available for free to researchers and all enforcement. Jack Cable, a security architect for the Krebs Stamos Group who. and time stamps to achieve the maximum email processing speed. Ransomwhe.re keeps a running tally of ransoms paid based on anonymous self-reporting by the victims of ransomware. As the number of attacks increases in 2020, ransomware attacks are driven by the unrest. Hackers often use emails to spread ransomware which will disable the essential functions. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency worker, has started a ransomware payments tracking site called Ransomewhere.īecause bitcoin transactions are public, you can see-if you look-who’s getting paid how much. Jack Cable, a security architect at Krebs Stamos group, and a former U.S.