Ransomware perspectives

Double extortion. Combined with data exfiltration to incentivize paying ransom, and monetizing data in auctions if not. Corporations can buy competitor’s info this way – it’s not all organized crime leveraging things stolen by organized crime.

The “intelligence” built into ransomware campaigns. They used to be smash and grab. Now they gain persistence, elevate privilege, and identify and disrupt data and computing that are critical to an organization’s continuity of operations.

The commoditization of ransomware as a service, and how that has played into current economic distress, allowing people to get into the crime business – mainly out of necessity.

The services operated by local governments are critical on the scale that we live our daily lives. Water purification, waste treatment, storm water removal, traffic management, communication systems for law enforcement and public safety, emergency management, election systems, and 9-1-1 are all enabled by, and in some cases dependent on IT. So the potential impacts of disrupting local government operations can be civil unrest, public health emergencies… all the way up to loss of life.

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Think about it this way: your toilet can stop flushing and cause a public health emergency, traffic lights can be all turned to flashing red and impede first responders, drinking water can be rendered suspect (ref recent Israeli water utility compromised by Iranians, had control of Chlorine injection), and county governments can be knocked over by ransomware as a service in the middle of an election.