New Phone, Who Dis? The Importance of Verifying Threats in the Age of Fake RaaS
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that’s the case, some ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) threat actors must be feeling seriously good about themselves lately.
With ransomware operations hitting the headlines, and the global cost of ransomware damage predicted to hit $231B by 2031, threat actors are increasingly creating fake operations, often leveraging the fame of other actors to get more attention to their own activities in order to get a slice of the action.