Clop Ransomware Detection: Threat Research Release, April 2021
Clop Ransomware has been active since 2019 and has been mostly associated with financially-driven criminal groups. However, lately this ransomware payload has been observed in campaigns against universities and other institutions in the education vertical. Most recently, Clop Ransomware has been used in a cyberattack that demanded one of the highest ransom amounts in recorded history ($20 million), and one of the particular items associated with the actors behind the Clop Ransomware is blackmailing their victims through threatening to publish sensitive information exfiltrated from victims' ne...