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But while our reporting tracked down phone threats made by ransomware groups to September this year, the FBI says this tactic was actually first seen with the DoppelPaymer gang months before. Doppelpaymer is one of the first ransomware variants where actors have called the victims to entice payments, the FBI said. As of February 2020, in multiple instances, DoppelPaymer actors had followed ransomware infections with calls to the victims to extort payments through intimidation or threatening to release exfiltrated data, it added.
The agency then goes on to detail one particular incident where threats escalated from the attacked company to its employees and even relatives. From the PIN alert: