{"id":188,"date":"2020-08-29T00:15:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2020-08-29T00:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T21:15:17","slug":"russian-cybercrime-suspect-arrested-for-1-million-ransomware-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/security\/russian-cybercrime-suspect-arrested-for-1-million-ransomware-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian cybercrime suspect arrested for $ 1 million ransomware conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a cybercrime conspiracy story that makes a difference.<\/p>\n<p>As we write about network-wide ransomware attacks that blackmail the entire company at once, two burning issues immediately arise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How much money do the villains demand?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Did the victim pay?<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The answers vary, but as you\u2019ve probably read about this Naked Security, modern ransomware criminals often use two-way tightening technology when trying to maximize their asking price.<\/p>\n<p>First, thieves steal a number of corporate files that threaten to disclose or sell to other thugs; then they shuffle the data files on all the computers in the company to stop the business.<\/p>\n<p>Pay blackmail, say the villains, and they not only \u201cguarantee\u201d that the stolen data will never be passed on to anyone else, but also offer a decryption program to rework all the encrypted files so that the business can continue.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports include an attack on a fitness monitoring company, Garmin, which was allegedly blackmailed to $ 10 million and paid, albeit apparently after the amount had fallen into the \u201cmulti-million\u201d range; and business travel company CWT, which faced similar seven-figure demand and ended up handing over $ 4.5 million to criminals to get its business back on track.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, law firm Grubman Shire Meiselas &amp; Sacks faced a staggering $ 42 million ransomware blackmail claim, but faced it down, comparing the villains to a terrorist and refusing to pay a dime.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, U.S. wine giant Brown-Forman took a similar stance in refusing to work with criminals after its network was invaded.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"sophos_ad-3\" class=\"widget sophos-inline-ad sophos_widget_ad\"><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a cybercrime conspiracy story that makes a difference. As we write about network-wide ransomware attacks that blackmail the entire company at once, two burning issues immediately arise: How much money do the villains demand? Did the victim pay? The answers vary, but as you\u2019ve probably read about this Naked Security, modern ransomware criminals often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierceonlinevideo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}