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Europol: Dangerous ransomware group caught  
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According to a report by Spiegel.de, Europol is said to have recently announced that it had caught the backers of a large ransomware group. The twelve suspects are said to have blackmailed thousands of victims in 71 countries, including the aluminum company Norsk Hydro. A few days ago, the Europol investigators dealt a global ransomware group a heavy blow, as Europol and the European judicial authority Eurojust announced on Friday in The Hague. In doing so, the 12 most important key figures have been identified. The group and its leaders should target particularly serious cyberattacks on large ...

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Mandiant classifies ransomware group as FIN12
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Last year, the UNC1878 hacking group made headlines after it deliberately and aggressively attacked healthcare facilities with ransomware. Mandiant has upgraded UNC1878 from an "unclassified group" to the category of FIN hackers. A report. Mandiant UNC1878 upgraded from an "unclassified group" to the category of FIN hackers (financially motivated groups) and assigned the designation FIN12. FIN12 was responsible for nearly 20 percent of all ransomware attacks Mandiant responded to last year. The average time to ransom demand is around 2,5 days. This makes FIN12 about twice as fast as ...

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