Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’
Summary: Krebs on Security profiles 'Wazawaka,' a Russian-speaking initial access broker who sold DDoS attacks for about $80 a day before moving to selling access to hacked organizations and stolen databases, including access to a Chinese company with more than $10 billion in annual revenues. Wazawaka said LockBit paid him roughly $500,000 in commissions in the six months before September 2020 and that he worked with DarkSide, the group behind the six-day Colonial Pipeline outage for which the State Department has offered a $5 million reward.
What you should know: The access broker who sold the way into victim networks earned about $500,000 from one ransomware program in six months, while the U.S. government's reward for DarkSide affiliates tops out at $5 million - and Wazawaka's own stated rule is to never leave Russia, where he says he will 'always get away with everything.'
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