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Wazawaka responds.

Wazawaka Goes Waka Waka

| | A Little Sunshine, Babuk, Babuk ransomware, Biba99, Boriselcin, Cisco Talos, CVE-2021-20028, Dmitry Smilyanets, Groove ransom, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Orange, RaidForums, RAMP, Ransomware, SonicWall VPN, [email protected], ToX, Verified, Washington Metropolitan Police Department, Wazawaka
In January, KrebsOnSecurity examined clues left behind by "Wazawaka," the hacker handle chosen by a major ransomware criminal in the Russian-speaking cybercrime scene. Wazawaka has since "lost his mind" according to his ...
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Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?

Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain?

| | @CookieDays, A Little Sunshine, ALPHV ransomware, Binrs, BlackCat ransomware, BlackMatter, Breadcrumbs, Catalin Cimpanu, Darkside, DuckerMan, duckermanit, Flashpoint, Jason Hill, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Paul Roberts, RAMP, Recorded Future, ReversingLabs, rEvil, Sergey Duck, Sergey Kryakov, Sergey Penchikov, smiseo, The Record, ToX, Varonis, YBCat
In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. "BlackCat"), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain in the Rust programming language ...
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