Ransomware gang leaks court and prisoner files from Illinois Attorney General Office

Catalin Cimpanu has an update to a situation first reported on DataBreaches.net last week. The operators of the DopplePaymer ransomware have leaked a large collection of files from the Illinois Office of the Attorney General after negotiations have broken down and officials refused to pay a ransom demand, The Record has learned. Perhaps the most interesting part of Cimpanu’s report is the part that explains why negotiations with those threat actors often fail — and it has to do with the sanctioning of Evil Corp by the government and the suggestion that DoppelPaymer ransomware was created by Evil Corp. Read more on The Record.DataBreaches.netRead More