Security News > 2021 > May > Collaboration between network access brokers and ransomware actors deepens

In this Help Net Security podcast, Brandon Hoffman, CISO at Intel 471, discusses about the increased collaboration between network access brokers and ransomware operators, and how they funcion it today's threat landscape.

I'm excited to join the podcast today, and I was planning to talk a little bit about the increased cooperation between what's commonly referred to as access brokers or network access brokers and ransomware operators.

What we noticed, what was taking place is that there was this kind of increased cooperation between network access brokers and ransomware actors or ransomware-as-a-service operators.

So what we found is that these network access brokers started working more closely with the ransomware actors.

All of the, not all but many of the high profile network access brokers that you've probably heard reported on the news, are working very closely with these ransomware groups.

They're starting to kind of monopolize network access brokers to create a more stable and smooth transition from initial access through the attack chain, all the way to ransomware and payment.

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