Ransomware: New Recipe For An Old Dish
summary
Ransomware shifts from spray‑and‑pray to professionalized extortion: affiliates recruit via forum job postings demanding Metasploit, Active Directory and Hyper‑V skills, advertise initial access broker services and sell VPN/RDP access in underground shops. Common entry vectors are exposed 3389 RDP, infostealers and phishing; honeypots record NLBrute and RDP‑brute tools; payments include buckets like $300,000 weekend and multiyear takings into millions. NoMoreRansom reports 4.2M visitors and ~$632M saved by free decryptors.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:28Ransomware as a Service
- 4:45Organized Crime Groups
- 5:38CTB Locker
- 11:14Job Postings
- 15:12Methods of Entry
- 21:09Common Passwords
- 23:26Companies For Sale
- 25:29Business Intelligence Tools
- 28:03Commodity Malware
- 29:27A Million Dollar Business
- 32:55Data Leak
- 33:29Targeted Industry
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