Fake Decryption Tools and an Eighteenfold Markup: The Ransomware Vendor That Paid the Attackers Twice
A US incident-response firm told ransomware victims it could recover their data without paying the attackers. The indictment says it paid them anyway, then marked the decryption keys up eighteen times. Zohar Pinhasi, the 50-year-old owner of MonsterCloud, appeared in a New York court this week to face wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy charges….
