{"id":5388,"date":"2021-09-15T14:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T05:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=5388"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T05:52:37","slug":"grief-ransomware-gang-threatens-to-delete-decryption-keys-for-stolen-data-if-victims-hire-negotiators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/grief-ransomware-gang-threatens-to-delete-decryption-keys-for-stolen-data-if-victims-hire-negotiators\/","title":{"rendered":"Grief ransomware gang threatens to delete decryption keys for stolen data if victims hire negotiators"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5388\" class=\"elementor elementor-5388\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fff4521 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fff4521\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ea3a6b7\" data-id=\"ea3a6b7\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e2b271 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e2b271\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On Monday 13<sup>th<\/sup>, an announcement has been released by Grief ransomware gang. They warn that they will delete their victims\u2019 decryption keys if they are found to be hiring any negotiation firm which would lead to it being impossible to recover encrypted files.<\/p><p>&#8221; We wanna play a game. If we see professional negotiator from Recovery Company\u2122 &#8211; we will just destroy the data. Recovery Company\u2122 as we mentioned above will get paid either way. The strategy of Recovery Company\u2122 is not to pay requested amount or to solve the case but to stall. So we have nothing to loose in this case. Just the time economy for all parties involved. What will this Recovery Companies\u2122 earn when no ransom amount is set and data simply destroyed with zero chance of recovery? We think &#8211; millions of dollars. Clients will bring money for nothing. As usual\u201d \u2013 Grief ransomware gang<\/p><p>This announcement hasn\u2019t been taken lightly as the Ragnar Locker ransomware group released a similar announcement and have already claimed to have published a victim&#8217;s entire stolen data after they hired a ransomware negotiator. There was a concern that was brought up when Ragnar Locker\u2019s announcement was made. There are also beliefs that this tactic has also been adapted as Grief ransomware gang is believed to have connections to the Russian hacking group known as Evil Corp, which the US government have sanctioned.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 13th, an announcement has been released by Grief ransomware gang. They warn that they will delete their victims\u2019 decryption keys if they are found to be hiring any negotiation firm which would lead to it being impossible to recover encrypted files. &#8221; We wanna play a game. If we see professional negotiator from Recovery Company\u2122 &#8211; we will<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,9,2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-latest_vulnerabilities","category-read_article","category-ransomware_criminals","category-ce_news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Picture4.jpg?fit=1377%2C919&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5388\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}