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DarkSide Drama Isn’t The Death Of Ransomware – It’s Not Even The Death Of DarkSide

Posted on May 15, 2021May 15, 2021 By Davey Winder

DarkSide has had a very bad week for a gang that got paid $5 million, but it’s not game over

The Colonial Pipeline fallout has been, as expected, pretty quick once the U.S. started flexing governmental muscle – but will anything change other than the DarkSide gang name? I think so, but those changes to the ransomware-as-a-service business model won’t mean the death of the ransowmare threat by a long chalk.

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Analysis, Cybercrime, Opinion Tags:Colonial Pipeline, DarkSide, ransomware

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