Wired says McDonald's McFlurry machines are the target of a ‘milkshake shakedown’ The gang, suspected of being an offshoot of defunct GandCrab, uses ransomware code similar to DarkSide’s software. Bloomberg describes REvil as ‘a cybergang with Russian links’.

‍ JB Meat, US‍īrazil’s JB Meat, the world’s biggest meat company, paid their ransom in Bitcoin valued at $11m after ransomware shut down its operations in the US, Canada, and Australia in 2021, threatening to disrupt food supply and lead to inflated prices. DarkSide is one of 100 similar gangs the Bureau is investigating as ransomware explodes into a $14bn a year industry. SUSPECTS: DarkSide Ransomware Gang, described by the FBI as a ‘Russia-based cybercrime group’, that markets ransomware to criminal gangs who then conduct attacks and share a percentage of the ransom. The Department of Justice later seized most of the ransom paid to hackers - 63.7 Bitcoins then valued at $2.3m, which caused the cryptocurrency to sink temporarily. Colonial took itself offline, disrupting US supplies for days and causing fuel shortages. ‍ Colonial Pipeline, USĪtlanta-based Colonial Pipeline was hit by a ransomware cyber-attack in May 2021. Jon DiMaggio, chief security analyst at Analyst1, told Wired that if the Russian government were to get their hooks into Lockbit’s leader, he’d need to either turn over most of his money to them or do work for Putin such as helping with the Ukraine war. SUSPECTS: Lockbit are thought to all speak Russian and be based in Russia (although at least one suspected member, Mikhail Vasiliev, is in Canada fighting extradition to the US). The US Department of Justice believes LockBit’s ransomware has been used against 1,000 victims worldwide and earned the group $100m.

Ransomware group Lockbit is making headlines for operations including a 2023 attack on Britain’s Royal Mail and a 2022 attack on a Canadian children’s hospital (Lockbit later backtracked saying it blocked the member responsible for the bizarre hospital attack). RANSOMWARE ATTACKS Sick Kids Hospital, Canada Hackers tried to steal data from a casino through a fish tank connected to the internet

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