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Cyber-criminal groups have recently ramped up their use of Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) BlackCat/ALPHA-V, first identified by security researchers in November 2021, and upped the ante by publishing the hacked data on a dedicated website.
A criminal gang has deployed BlackCat ransomware to attack a US hotel, and has published the stolen data on a dedicated, indexable website. BlackCat is written in the Rust programming language, ...
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