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In the last 20 years, cybersecurity has certainly changed; in the last year, an evolution has occurred that is more frightening than the last 20 years combined.
In tracing DarkSide s roots, Cybereason researchers were so jarred by what they had learned that the company published a blog post at the beginning of April laying out some of its findings. It described DarkSide as a team of extortionists who steal private data and threaten to make it public unless the victim pays a large sum of money typically $200,000 to $2 million.
They re called ransomware attacks, and Cybereason had learned that DarkSide was not only a big perpetrator of such cybercrimes, but was also selling a product described as Ransomware as a Service that allowed other groups to use its homegrown tools and similarly wreak havoc for money.
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