“ Dridex“) to steal banking credentials from employees at hundreds of small- to mid-sized companies in the United States and Europe.įrom 2009 to the present, Aqua’s primary role in the conspiracy was recruiting and managing a continuous supply of unwitting or complicit accomplices to help Evil Corp. The feds allege Aqua led an elite cybercrime ring with at least 16 others who used advanced, custom-made strains of malware known as “ JabberZeus” and “ Bugat” (a.k.a.
Yakubets, who the government says went by the nicknames “ aqua,” and “ aquamo,” among others. The $5 million reward is being offered for 32 year-old Maksim V. The information disclosed for each Maze victim includes the initial date of infection, several stolen Microsoft Office, text and PDF files, the total volume of files allegedly exfiltrated from victims (measured in Gigabytes), as well as the IP addresses and machine names of the servers infected by Maze. KrebsOnSecurity was able to verify that at least one of the companies listed on the site indeed recently suffered from a Maze ransomware infestation that has not yet been reported in the news media. “Wait for their databases and private papers here.
“Represented here companies dont wish to cooperate with us, and trying to hide our successful attack on their resources,” the site explains in broken English.
Less than 48 hours ago, the cybercriminals behind the Maze Ransomware strain erected a Web site on the public Internet, and it currently lists the company names and corresponding Web sites for eight victims of their malware that have declined to pay a ransom demand. The message displayed at the top of the Maze Ransomware public shaming site.
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