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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @03:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 13 2020, @03:11PM (#970724)

    "They also intimate that they found "dirty" financial secrets in the data and threaten to disclose it."
    I know English isn't my first language. But ... what? Should it be Indicate instead of Intimate?

    Intimate is correct in this context.

    Intimate (v. trans.) [merriam-webster.com]:

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

    Indicate is fine too, but implies a more direct approach.