Security News > 2020 > June > Posh Spice's perfume people pop up in Maze ransomware gang extortion effort
The Maze ransomware gang has struck again - this time targeting an American M&A practice which counts former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham as one of its clients.
Posh Spice's corporate tentacle, which flogs perfume and suchlike to the great unwashed, is a client of Threadstone Advisors LLP, a New York corporate advisory firm specialising in mergers 'n' acquisitions.
The Maze ransomware gang, which has made a habit over the last few months of targeting ever-higher profile targets to extort money out of them, posted what appeared to be files extracted from Threadstone's servers on its dark web blog.
Neither Victoria Beckham's people nor Threadstone responded to The Register's emailed questions about the apparent breach.
While there is nothing to suggest that Threadstone or Posh Spice have paid any ransom demands yet, nor that they plan to, the typical ransomware crook only begins selective leaking in an effort to apply further pressure to the target in the hope of securing a bribe not to publicly disclose stolen data.