The people behind the ransomware Petya-Mischa have leaked decryption keys from their competitors. You might be wondering why. So are many of us!
Petya-Mischa has now released a “service” for their ransomware called RaaS. Oddly enough, it was released only a matter of hours before the decryption keys were leaked to the ransomware called Chimera. Some might question whether this is really about rivalry between competitors and an attempt at drawing more awareness to RaaS.
If you aren’t aware, RaaS was created as a service to allow hackers anywhere to have access to specific ransomwares. They then have the option to act as a “distributor” for that ransomware, thus making money by getting a percentage of the ransoms that come in. These ransoms are paid by bitcoin. According to many of the top security forums, this will release of Petya-Mischa RaaS will lead to a huge increase in attacks of ransomware.
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