InfoSec News Nuggets 02/01/2022
Who Wrote the ALPHV/BlackCat Ransomware Strain? In December 2021, researchers discovered a new ransomware-as-a-service named ALPHV (a.k.a. “BlackCat“), considered to be the first professional cybercrime group to create and use a ransomware strain written in the Rust programming language. In this post, we’ll explore some of the clues left behind by a developer who was reputedly hired to code the ransomware variant. According to an analysis released this week by Varonis, ALPHV is actively recruiting operators from several ransomware organizations…