![]() “It could just be that…they’re in over their head there,” said Cable, a consultant at cybersecurity consulting firm Krebs Stamos Group. Hours later, though, when cybersecurity consultant Jack Cable reached out to the gang, the hackers changed their tune again, suggesting that a $50 million payment would suffice-and Cable hadn’t even asked for a price drop, he told The Daily Beast. ![]() By Sunday, the hackers announced they would accept a lump sum of $70 million from all the victims in order to get the businesses back up and running-the largest extortion demand that’s ever been made publicly. The initial ransom demands the hackers made of approximately $50,000 per victim didn’t appear to be working. The victims number in the hundreds, if not thousands, according to John Hammond, a senior security researcher at Huntress Labs, which is working with Kaseya to investigate the incident.īut the sprawl of the hack seems to be tripping up the hackers themselves. By infiltrating Kaseya’s customers-many of which are IT providers-the hackers have also been able to hit those companies’ clients with malicious software that locks them out of their machines unless they pay a ransom. The hackers, known as the REVil ransomware gang, went after Kaseya, a firm which sells software to other companies. The Russian-speaking gang that set off a chain reaction of ransomware attacks around the globe last Friday might be in a little over its head, experts tell The Daily Beast.
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