Security News > 2021 > June > Scammers are impersonating the DarkSide ransomware gang

Someone out there is impersonating the infamous DarkSide ransomware gang and trying to trick companies in the energy and food industry to part with 100 Bitcoins, Trend Micro warns.

The threat actor claims to have breached the company's servers and to have access to sensitive company data, but offers not actual proof.

Compared to the real DarkSide gang's activities, this spam campaign and scam attempt is pretty amateurish, Trend Micro researcher Cedric Pernet noted.

"Also, like most modern ransomware attacks, DarkSide launched the ransomware to paralyze their target's operations before demanding ransom. Here, there is no encryption of any content on the target network; the actors just send a threat and a ransom demand based on the assertion that they reportedly have the data."

This threat actor mentions the attack on meat supplier JBS and takes credit for it, but a simple web search will immediately tell targets that that attack has been attributed to the REvil ransomware gang.

Recent research has shown that 60 percent of organizations would consider paying in the event of a ransomware attack.

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