In a bizarre announcement, the Maze ransomware gang revealed that their only aim was to reveal the security lapses at their targets.
The Maze ransomware operators launched several devastating cyber-attacks throughout 2020, the most recent targets being Cognizant in April, San Antonio Aerospace in June, Xerox in July, and Canon in August. Their targets suffered severely as a large volume of data was encrypted.
Now,the group that pioneered the double extortion technique has announced to shut down its operations for good. They claim that their acts were targeted towards organizations having lax security.
The gang was identified in May 2019; it specializes in infecting systems, encrypting files, and demanding a ransom in exchange for the files. However, the group claims that it is different from other groups as it only threatened the target to leak the stolen information only if they don’t pay the ransom. Other groups, such as REvil, Ryuk, and Mount Locker, all started following a similar modus operandi after taking inspiration from the Maze ransomware gang.
The press release published on their official website stated that they were closing the project.
“The Project is closed. Maze Team Project is announcing it is officially closed. All the links to our 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 an ..
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