The Security box, podcast 147: Unpacking the Structure of a Ransomware Group's Business Model

<p>Welcome to the security box, podcast 147. On this edition of the program, I believe I have a very interesting but true story that must be told with the names being changed to protect the innocent, or is it guilty? We&#39;ve got a very interesting article talking about the structure of ransomware groups, and no, we&#39;re not talking about specific named groups, just something that probably wouldn&#39;t surprise someone who reads this type of news. We&#39;ll see what else the landscape has to offer with news, notes, questions and more. </p> <p><br></p> <p>&lt;h4&gt; A true story that might include a moron? &lt;/h4&gt;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Someone recently got someone fired as part of a grudge where someone heard something they said and decided to look them up and email a copy of what they said to the employer. This is the first time we&#39;ve seen this in the phone world and we hope it isn&#39;t going to happen again. Live version with names changed to protect the innocent, or are we protecting the guilty?</p> <p><br></p> <p>&lt;h4&gt; Topic: What&#39;s going on with Ransomware groups? &lt;/h4&gt;</p> <p><br></p> <p>The following is a Trend Micro article which we found very valuable. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/d/unpacking-the-structure-of-modern-cybercrime-organizations--.html&quot;&gt;Unpacking the Structure of Modern Cybercrime Organizations &lt;/a&gt; is the title of this article and well worth the read. Question for readers and listeners to the live or podcast edition listeners, are you surprised? Let&#39;s discuss this one.</p> <p><br></p> <p>&lt;h4&gt; Supporting the podcast &lt;/h4&gt;</p> <p><br></p> <p>If you&#39;d like to support our efforts on what this podcast is doing, you can feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jaredrimer.net/donations.html&quot;&gt;donate to the network, &lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.986themix.com/mailman/listinfo/thesecuritybox_986themix.com&quot;&gt;subscribing to the security box discussion list &lt;/a&gt; or sending us a