{"id":9639,"date":"2021-08-03T10:38:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=9639"},"modified":"2021-08-09T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T12:40:20","slug":"darkside-ransomware-gang-returns-as-blackmatter-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/darkside-ransomware-gang-returns-as-blackmatter-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"DarkSide Ransomware Gang Returns As BlackMatter Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new ransomware operation called BlackMatter, which attacks corporate companies and buys network access for further attacks, was recently discovered to be a renamed version of DarkSide ransomware gang by encryption algorithms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following a careful investigation of the nature of the new ransomware group BlackMatter, BleepingComputer revealed after cross-examination by Emisosft CTO and ransomware expert Fabian Wosar a decryptor of a BlackMatter victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was found that the new group uses the same unique encryption methods that DarkSide uses to carry out its attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BleepingComputer knows of several victims targeted by BlackMatter with ransom demands ranging from $3 million to $4 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DarkSide was responsible for the major Colonial Pipeline attack that occurred earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/darkside-ransomware-gang-returns-as-new-blackmatter-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in BleepingComputer.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ransomware operation called BlackMatter, which attacks corporate companies and buys network access for further attacks, was recently discovered to be a renamed version of DarkSide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9639"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9694,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9639\/revisions\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}