Maze ransomware continua em meio a avisos de autoridades francesas e do FBI - CyberScoop

Maze ransomware continua em meio a avisos de autoridades francesas e do FBI - CyberScoop: Roughly a month after the FBI advised U.S. companies to protect themselves against a pernicious strain of ransomware, hackers have continued to attack victims and threaten to publicize their private information. A hacking group deploying Maze ransomware has used a network of websites to publicly identify organizations it claimed to hack, and which of them refused to pay a ransom. In one recent note, the group said it would release confidential data if three small law firms based in South Dakota didn’t meet their demands. While it remains unclear if the Maze group has made any information public in this case, this incident only is the latest example of scammers promising to publish data, rather than leaving it encrypted or deleting it outright. A French government cybersecurity agency on Wednesday published a Maze alert suggesting TA-2101, a hacker group which previously targeted German government agencies and U.S. tax professionals, was …

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