{"id":143432,"date":"2022-08-02T18:24:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/dark-web-research-suggests-87-of-ransomware-brands-exploit-malicious-macros"},"modified":"2022-08-02T18:24:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T23:24:18","slug":"dark-web-research-suggests-87-of-ransomware-brands-exploit-malicious-macros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/dark-web-research-suggests-87-of-ransomware-brands-exploit-malicious-macros","title":{"rendered":"Dark Web Research Suggests 87% of Ransomware brands Exploit Malicious Macros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-web-research-suggests-87-of-ransomware-brands-exploit-malicious-macros2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The findings reportedly uncovered 475 web pages of elaborate ransomware products and services, alongside many high-profile groups aggressively marketing ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS).<\/p>\n<p>Forensic Pathways also identified 30 different \u201cbrands\u201d of ransomware, with some known names such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/search\/?q=BlackCat\" target=\"_blank\">BlackCat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/search\/?q=Egregor\" target=\"_blank\">Egregor<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/search\/?q=Hidden Tear\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Tear<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/search\/?q=WannaCry\" target=\"_blank\">WannaCry<\/a> having been successfully used in high-profile attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The research also suggested Ransomware strains used in high-profile attacks command a higher price for associated services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The findings reportedly uncovered 475 web pages of elaborate ransomware products and services, alongside many high-profile groups aggressively marketing ransomware-as-a-service (RAAS). Forensic Pathways also identified 30 different \u201cbrands\u201d of ransomware, with some known names such as BlackCat, Egregor, Hidden Tear and WannaCry having been successfully used in high-profile attacks. The research also suggested Ransomware strains [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}