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A post to RaidForums offers to share the identities of a ransomware-as-a-service operation s leadership - for a price.
Maze was one of the most notorious and successful ransomware operations of recent years until its retirement last November. The group pioneered the data-leaking model that involves first stealing victims data, then using the threat of leaking it to try to force victims to pay.
The strategy worked, helping fuel a boom in ransomware profits and leading numerous other operations to follow suit.
Unsubstantiated cybercrime forum chatter has suggested that Russian national Maxim Yakubets was a core member of the Maze ransomware gang and its successor, Egregor. (Source: FBI; click to enlarge)