DarkSide hackers mint money with ransomware franchise
By MICHAEL RILE AND ALYZA SEBENIUS | Bloomberg | Published: May 12, 2021 When a new ransomware group popped up on the scene last year, the hackers did what's in vogue for digital extortion organizations these days: They issued a press release. The hackers had already made "millions of dollars" in profit working as affiliates for other groups when they decided to go out on their own, the announcement said. "We created DarkSide because we didn't find the perfect product. Now we have it." That product — essentially a set of hacking tools and related services — was responsible for the s...
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