Security News > 2021 > September > What Ragnar Locker Got Wrong About Ransomware Negotiators – Podcast

The Ragnar Locker ransomware gang just put its victims on notice: Call for help - be it from investigators, the FBI or ransomware negotiators - and the punishment will be the publication of encrypted files.

So I am conducting and advising on ransomware negotiations and working with clients that have suffered ransomware attacks, crafting our strategy and then negotiating with the actual ransomware groups.

Now I wanted to ask you about the recent warning from the Ragnar Locker gang, which is to publish compromised files if its victims dare to call the police or the FBI or investigators, or to engage with ransomware negotiators.

There are a couple of tells in the Ragnar Locker statement: first, that they conflate ransomware negotiating services, cybersecurity professionals who are conducting ransomware negotiations, as being affiliated with police or FBI or, quote, investigation agency.

It's not the first group that we've seen post warnings about working with ransomware negotiators.

I do see some other, you know, some potential that other groups will post warnings: "I'm working with ransomware negotiators," or try to start to call out companies that are working with ransomware negotiators.

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https://threatpost.com/ragnar-locker-ransomware-negotiators/169292/