The Gentlemen: A closer look at a not-so-gentle ransomware-as-a- service operation
The Gentlemen uses a double-extortion model. In addition to encrypting files, the ransomware can exfiltrate data from compromised systems. This puts additional pressure on victims to pay the ransom to restore access to their files and prevent the stolen data from being publicly leaked.
Buying protection is not the same as being protected. What decides the outcome is how the protection is configured and used every day. This report looks at that gap. It uses the live configuration records behind a large managed fleet, more than 1.6 million active endpoints, to see how protection plans are actually set up, how administrators and the providers who manage them choose to structure plans and what those choices tel
The Gentlemen uses a double-extortion model. In addition to encrypting files, the ransomware can exfiltrate data from compromised systems. This puts additional pressure on victims to pay the ransom to restore access to their files and prevent the stolen data from being publicly leaked.
An AI tool that produces only text carries roughly the risk of a badly worded email. A tool that can reach into systems and change things carries the risk of whatever those systems hold. The security question is not how clever the model is. It is which systems and data the model is authorized to access.
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From Open Directories to AI-Coded Malware: How a Pakistan-Nexus Threat Actor Leaked Their Entire Arsenal Targeting Afghan Telecom and South Asian Critical Infrastructure
Subhajeet Singha
Subhajeet works around threat intelligence, malware research, and reverse engineering. Subhajeet actively investigates advanced persistent threats (APTs), reverse-engineers complex malware strains, and contributes to research initiatives that improve threat detection.