Security News > 2023 > May > Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates

That model mirrors those of other RaaS groups and illustrates why slowing the ransomware scourge is so hard - affiliates who help to spread the evil code make lots of money.

According to Group-IB's report, Qilin affiliates - those who pay to use Qilin's ransomware for their own attacks - can take home 80 percent of the ransom paid.

"We are seeing RaaS affiliate actors getting paid higher shares of the ransoms than previously," Renfrow told The Register, noting that these days, the high cut for Qilin affiliates is not unusual.

"The BlackCat ransomware affiliates have also allegedly been earning 80 to 90 percent of the take versus 65 to 75 percent for affiliates in years prior."

Matthew Psencik, director of endpoint security at converged endpoint management vendor Tanium, told The Register that some affiliates pay as little as $40 a month for access to the attack code.

Affiliates who use that portal see an administrative panel for managing attacks that includes a dashboard for everything from targets to payments to changing passwords as well as blogs and an FAQ. How to slow down ransomware attacks?

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