We often talk about ransomware on Red Hot Cyber and criminal cyber gangs. But who invented this dangerous cyber blackmail “weapon”? Today, ransomware attacks have become familiar to most people, especially given the escalation in recent years that has targeted Italian hospitals and critical infrastructure, such as the Colonial Pipeline of the United States of America. The first ransomware in history While today ransomware attacks occur through malware injected into systems from a phishing email or a malicious exposure of a company’s administrative tools (as we saw in the article on Ransomware as a Service), the first ransomware in history was distributed

Do you remember the infamous REvil cyber gang? The Russian hacker group responsible for some of the most devastating ransomware attacks in the early days of this global threat, known for posting their criminal exploits on the popular underground forum “Happy Blog”. The Dzerzhinsky Court in St. Petersburg has convicted four more participants in the REvil (aka Sodinokibi) hacking group case, according to media reports. All those convicted were given actual prison sentences, but the defendants were released, having already served their full sentences in pre-trial detention, during the investigation and trial. REvil’s activities ceased in January 2022, after the FSB announced the