Security News > 2020 > July > Ransomware Gangs Don’t Need PR Help

We've seen an ugly trend recently of tech news stories and cybersecurity firms trumpeting claims of ransomware attacks on companies large and small, apparently based on little more than the say-so of the ransomware gangs themselves.

Currently, more than a dozen ransomware crime gangs have erected their own blogs to publish sensitive data from victims.

The goal behind the publication of these teasers is clear, and the ransomware gangs make no bones about it: To publicly pressure the victim company into paying up.

KrebsOnSecurity has sought to highlight ransomware incidents at companies whose core business involves providing technical services to others - particularly managed service providers that have done an exceptionally poor job communicating about the attack with their customers.

Overall, I've tried to use each story to call attention to key failures that frequently give rise to ransomware infections, and to offer information about how other companies can avoid a similar fate.

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https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/ransomware-gangs-dont-need-pr-help/