Maze, a notorious ransomware group, says it’s shutting downĬD Projekt hit by ransomware attack, refuses to pay ransom Kaseya hack floods hundreds of companies with ransomware Read more on TechCrunchĪre we overestimating the ransomware threat?įujifilm becomes the latest victim of a network-crippling ransomware attack The group has racked up more than $11 million in ransom payments this year, according to Ransomwhere, an amount that could increase dramatically if its recent demands for $70 million as part of the Kaseya attack are met. The bulk of these payments have been made to the REvil, the Russia-linked ransomware gang that took credit for the JBS and Kaseya hacks. “For law enforcement, as we saw with the Colonial Pipeline hack, law enforcement does have the ability to recover some payments, so it would be great if this can further aid their efforts.”Īt the time of writing, the site is tracking a total of more than $32 million in ransom payments for 2021. “As we consider policy proposals to change the state of ransomware economics, we will need data to assess whether these actions are successful," Cable said. The already-burgeoning database, which doesn’t include any personal or victim-identifying information, is available as a free download for the cybersecurity community and law enforcement officials, which Cable hopes will help give some much-needed public transparency about the current state of the problem. If an approved report’s authenticity is later called into question, it will be removed from the database. However, in order to make sure all reports are legitimate, each submission is required to take a screenshot of the ransomware payment demand, and every case is reviewed manually by Cable himself before being made publicly available. As the site is crowdsourced, it incorporates data from self-reported incidents of ransomware attacks, which anyone can submit. The website keeps a running tally of ransoms paid out to cybercriminals in bitcoin, made possible thanks to the public record-keeping of transactions on the blockchain. “After seeing that there's currently no single place for public data on ransomware payments, and given that it's not hard to track bitcoin transactions, I started hacking it together.” “I was inspired to start Ransomwhere by Katie Nickels's tweet that no one really knows the full impact of cybercrime, and especially ransomware,” Cable told TechCrunch. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), is looking to solve that problem with the launch of a crowdsourced ransom payments tracking website, Ransomwhere. Jack Cable, a security architect at Krebs Stamos Group who previously worked for the U.S.
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