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posted by Fnord666 on Friday March 13 2020, @01:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-many-secrets dept.

Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company's 'Dirty' Secrets:

The operators of the Sodinokibi Ransomware are threatening to publicly share a company's "dirty" financial secrets because they refused to pay the demanded ransom.

As organizations decide to restore their data manually or via backups instead of paying ransoms, ransomware operators are escalating their attacks.

In a new post by the Sodinokibi operators to their data leak site, we can see that attackers are not only publishing victim's data but also sifting through it to find damaging information that can be used against the victim.

In the above post, the attackers are threatening to sell the Social Security Numbers and date of births for people in the data to other hackers on the dark web.

They also intimate that they found "dirty" financial secrets in the data and threaten to disclose it.


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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday March 13 2020, @02:12PM (2 children)

    by Immerman (3985) on Friday March 13 2020, @02:12PM (#970697)

    >Should it be Indicate instead of Intimate?
    The internet is actually a great place to learn things you don't know - you can literally just type your question exactly as it is into your search engine of choice and get an instant answer:

    From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intimate [merriam-webster.com]

    intimate verb
    in·​ti·​mate | \ ˈin-tə-ˌmāt
    \
    intimated; intimating

    Definition of intimate (Entry 3 of 3)

    transitive verb
    1 : to communicate delicately and indirectly : hint
    2 : to make known especially publicly or formally : announce

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @02:52PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @02:52PM (#970717)

    All this time I thought that intimates were girlie underwear.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by vux984 on Friday March 13 2020, @03:30PM

      by vux984 (5045) on Friday March 13 2020, @03:30PM (#970730)

      They are that too. That's a more contextual use that plays off the "very private; closely personal" definition.