DarkSide Ransomware Operations
DarkSide is a relatively new ransomware group, which first appeared in August 2020 on one of the Russian language hacking forums where they were availing their ransomware to others groups. They are a new type of ransomware-as-a-service business, attempting to instill trust and reliability between themselves and their victims. The stealthy techniques followed by the threat actors ensure the attack tools and pattern would evade detection on the monitored system. The DarkSide group aggressively pressure the victims to pay the ransom amount. In short, they don’t like to be ignored. In case the victims do not reply within two or three days, they start to send threatening emails to employees. Even if that doesn’t work, they start calling senior executives on their mobile phones. The next course of action is to threaten the victim by saying that they would start to contact the victim’s customers or the press. And if that doesn’t work, they might launch DDoS to take down the whole extern...