A press release on the website of a notorious cybercrime gang, who stole data from organisations and demanded a ransom be paid for its safe return, says that it is closing down.
The Maze gang not only encrypted files on corporate networks with their ransomware so they could no longer be accessed, they also exfiltrated the data from systems they infected and threatened to release it if a ransom was not paid.
On its website, the Maze had gang warned that they would release to the public and media details of a security breach, sell commercially-valuable stolen information to other criminals, inform stock exchanges about the hack and loss of sensitive information, and use stolen data to attack clients and partners.
Other ransomware (such as REvil, also known as Sodinokibi) witnessed that this was a particularly successful way of squeezing money out of breached companies, and followed a similar strategy.
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But today, the Maze cybercrime group’s main webpage has been replaced with a “press release” announcing that it is curtailing its operations:
Part of the announcement reads:
“The Project is closed.”
“Maze Team Project is announcing it is officially closed.All the links to out project, using of our brand, our work methods should be considered to be a scam.”
“We never had partners or official successors. Our specialists do not works with any other software. Nobody and never will be able to host new partners at our news website. The Maze cartel was never exists and is not existing now. It can be found only insid ..
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