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Ransomware gang takes out Facebook ads to apply pressure on victim

12
Nov
2020

It’s a story we’re sadly all too familiar with. A company, in this case Italian liquor company Campari, is attacked by ransomware, planted by hackers who have compromised the firm’s network. Its files and devices are encrypted – locking the business out of its data, but not before the sensitive information has been exfiltrated by […]

Category Cyber-crimeMalware Written by Hotforsecurity 0 Comments

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Ransomware Group Turns to Facebook Ads

10
Nov
2020

It’s bad enough that many ransomware gangs now have blogs where they publish data stolen from companies that refuse to make an extortion payment. Now, one crime group has started using hacked Facebook accounts to run ads publicly pressuring their ransomware victims into paying up. On the evening of Monday, Nov. 9, an ad campaign […]

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