New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine
Summary: Krebs on Security reports that the Venus ransomware group has been editing executives' Outlook .pst inbox files to insert fabricated messages about trading stock on non-public information, a scheme one member said carries up to 20 years in prison under US federal law. The CLOP gang, meanwhile, told of twice infecting healthcare providers by sending booby-trapped files disguised as ultrasound images or medical records for a remote consultation patient with cirrhosis of the liver.
Bottom line: Venus is turning to framing executives for insider trading because, as Alex Holden put it, the group is targeting many U.S. companies but nobody wants to pay them - a reminder that extortion pressure can arrive as a manufactured scandal rather than an encryption event.
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