The Top 5 Most Dangerous Criminal Organisations Online Right Now
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July 8, 2021 at 10:00 am
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog!
These words from Peter Steiner’s famous cartoon could easily be applied to the recent ransomware attack on Florida-based software supplier Kaseya.
Kaseya provides software services to thousands of clients around the world. It’s estimated between 800 and 1,500 medium to small businesses may be impacted by the attack, with the hackers demanding US$50 million
The global ransomware attack has been labelled the biggest on record. Russian cybercriminal organisation REvil is the alleged culprit.
Despite its notoriety, nobody really knows what REvil is, what it’s capable of or why it does what they does apart from the immediate benefit of huge sums of money. Also, ransomware attacks often involve vast distributed networks, so it’s not even certain the individuals involved would know each other.
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In a recent statement to the press, ANZ’s Bank chief information security officer, Lynwen Connick warned organisations against paying ransoms to hackers, saying the payments only lead to more attacks.
The statement came off the back of two international high profile cyber-attacks.
Connick referred to the incidents involving the meat-processing company JBS and USA Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, both of which ended in multi-million ransoms being paid to hackers after they froze computer systems and brought their respective operations to a halt.
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