REvil hackers are now demanding $7.5 million ransom from the targeted food distributors.
Last week, the US president Trump was hit with alarming claims of his data being in the hands of the cybercriminals group and operator of REvil ransomware. Targeting a US-based law firm named Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks (GSM); the attackers threatened to leak it unless they were paid $42 million.
However, just recently in a classic U-turn, they have stated that the data has been sold to a buyer on the dark web and due to their policy of only letting the buyer retain a copy, they will not be leaking it.
Many believe that they never had any harmful data on Trump in the first place.
lol REvil were bluffing and are now backing down on the whole Trump leak, they probably didn't have anything on him. pic.twitter.com/8HgPvMWsI0
— Under the Breach (@underthebreach) May 18, 2020
However, this marks their shift to now auctioning data belonging to Madonna instead as revealed in their blog post. This time, the auction starts from $1 million governed by the same guidelines used before as shown in the photo album later in the article.
Yet, this is not all. Just about a couple of days ago, as reported by Da ..
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