{"id":31332,"date":"2020-11-05T18:38:34","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T16:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31332"},"modified":"2025-08-28T03:07:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T00:07:40","slug":"researchers-expose-hackers-for-double-extortion-and-data-hoarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/researchers-expose-hackers-for-double-extortion-and-data-hoarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers expose hackers for double extortion and data hoarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some hackers may retain stolen data even after the victim has paid the ransom. Coveware researchers say they have reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coveware.com\/blog\/q3-2020-ransomware-marketplace-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">these conclusions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a renewed extortion campaign, researchers exposed the Sodinokibi ransomware group. Hackers from NetWalker and Mespinoza published the data of firms that paid the ransom. The Conti group sent forged evidence of the deletion of stolen information.<\/p>\n<p>Experts urged not to pay the ransom due to the lack of security guarantees. Coveware also described any cyberattack as data theft, urging victims to inform employees, customers and partners about it.<\/p>\n<p>As reported, a representative of the hacker group behind the spread of the REvil (Sodinokibi) <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/revil-ransomware-group-estimates-annual-income-at-over-100m\">estimated<\/a> the group&#8217;s annual earnings of more than $100 million.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some hackers may retain stolen data even after the victim has paid the ransom. Coveware researchers say they have reached such conclusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1154],"class_list":["post-31332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31334,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31332\/revisions\/31334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}