Hackers Target Larger Companies For Bigger Payday

If you’re running a large company that has an entire workforce of computers, there’s something that you need to know. Hackers that run ransomwares are targeting bigger companies with the goal of getting a bigger payday. The GrandCrab ransomware strain, which became a potential threat last year, is something that business owners alike should look into. As a precaution, companies must have managed IT services working in the background to protect themselves against ransomware attacks.

Since last year, the developers of the said ransomware strain continued to improve the code, pushing the latest iteration, GrandCrab 5.2. The latest version of the ransomware was discovered earlier this year. Crowdstrike researchers have been looking into how the group behind the malicious software operate as well as dissecting the inner works of the ransomware.

According to research findings, the creators of GrandCrab work with other hackers through an affiliate scheme. GrandCrab operators launch the software on behalf of other hackers then split the profit for any successful attacks. The developers of the ransomware have also been advertising their scheme onto the Dark Web in attempts to lure in more hackers. In addition to boosting their efforts, they have also been focusing more on higher value targets and ignoring smaller businesses. With this threat in mind, computer security should be on the top of the list for businesses.

In a rather simplified explanation, the hackers’ primary objective is to get inside a corporate network. Once inside the network, the hackers don’t attack just yet. They wait until they find out just how many computers they can take hold. The goal now is to maximize the breach by infecting as many computers as possible in one go. This then results into a massive data encryption, most likely affecting all computers in the network.

Ransomware developers have grown quite sophisticated over the years, pushing more dangerous software. This highlights the urgency for businesses to have managed IT services Columbia in order to protect against malicious attacks and preserve company data.

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