Security News > 2023 > July > The Week in Ransomware - July 21st 2023 - Avaddon Back as NoEscape
This edition of the Week in Ransomware covers the last two weeks of news, as we could not cover it last week, and includes quite a bit of new information, including the return of the Avaddon ransomware gang.
Last month, a new ransomware operation named NoEscape was launched that quickly began amassing a stream of new corporate victims.
While the gang has claimed not to have any affiliation with Avaddon, their encryptor is very similar to the former operation's ransomware, according to ransomware expert Michael Gillespie.
July 17th 2023 Meet NoEscape: Avaddon ransomware gang's likely successor.
The new NoEscape ransomware operation is believed to be a rebrand of Avaddon, a ransomware gang that shut down and released its decryption keys in 2021.
Meet NoEscape: Avaddon ransomware gang's likely successor.