by GEOFF HARRIS | The National DeskFILE - A server farm is seen April 19, 2017. Cybersecurity experts fear ransomware attacks could be on the rise, in part because of a group called " Scattered Spider ."
"They're a loose affiliation. They don't have the central core but they do have a central mission and that is engaging in these hacking exercises," said Scott White, the Director of the Cybersecurity program at George Washington University. White says "Scattered Spider" is not a new group of criminals. They've actually been around of quite some time.Different aliases, but the same group; So who are they? White says they are a team of hackers, each with different specialties, who merge their skills together.
"They come together because they have skillsets and begin to identify with that particular group and find ways through the dark web to begin to communicate with this group and then share collectively these operations," said White."They generally target people to get what we call PII. Personally identifiable information," White said.
That could be everything from their names all the way up to potential identification codes making it easier to access company information. Now aside from "Scattered Spider", White says another reason why we could see more attacks is because ransomware is one of the top capital accumulators for cyber criminals.Plus, there's more access to ransomware than we've seen in the past.
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