A few days ago we published an article on the new cybergang 8Base. 8base define themselves as “honest and simple pentesters. We offer companies the most loyal conditions for returning their data”. As RHC, we contacted them, and their approach immediately appeared different to other gangs. At our first contact to request an interview, the first thing that they replied with was “Dear friends, fortunately we are not rock stars, and do not give interviews, for the simple reason that we have nothing to be particularly proud of”. This response is completely divergent in respect to other interviews that we have conducted

Translator: Tara Lie We often talk about the LockBit Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, recently remodelled as LockBit 3.0, which continues to bring important innovations to the ransomware cyber circus. Often these new alterations are so disruptive that they are adopted by other cybergangs due to how effective they are, introducing novelties or alternate ways to obtain a ransom payment. As we know, cyber gangs have recently moved to version 3.0, which we have previously analysed to compare it to previous versions. The cyber gangs, like any regular organisation, updates and evolves its “business model” by continuously innovating –  finding new ways to evade the

Author: Dott. Luca Mella, Cyber Security Expert (founder doubleextortion.com) Translate: Vincenzo Marcovecchio Pubblication Date: 5/02/2022 In recent years, the ransomware phenomenon has been so disruptive that it heavily influences the security agendas of many companies, organizations, and beyond. The disruptive brutality of the cyber-criminal practices of double extortion has even influenced the political decisions of the United States and the European Union: these attacks have increasingly revealed themselves as instruments of geopolitical pressure in the dialectics between the nations of the Atlantic Pact and the states under Russian influence. Monitoring modern ransomware attacks, double extortion, one of the “game-changers” that is most