Low-Drama ‘Dark Angels’ Reap Record Ransoms
Summary: A ransomware group called Dark Angels received a record $75 million data ransom payment from a Fortune 50 company in early 2024, according to Zscaler ThreatLabz, which ranked the group as the top ransomware threat for 2024. Dark Angels, active since 2021 and thought to be a Russia-based syndicate, works alone, favors mass data theft over encrypting systems, and exfiltrated between 10-100 terabytes of data from large victims including Sysco and Sabre.
What you should know: Bleeping Computer posited the $75 million payer was pharmaceutical giant Cencora, which reported a $30 million cost tied to a mid-February 2024 data exfiltration event, while Sophos found the average ransomware payment rose fivefold in a year, from $400,000 to $2 million.
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