Bijna een jaar en een half na de release van de GandCrab malware, de exploitanten besloten af te sluiten hun bedrijf en geïnstrueerd hun partners om te stoppen met de verspreiding van het programma.
GandCrab arrived in the cybercriminal world on January 28, 2018. This ransomware replaced such infamous cryptographers as TeslaCrypt, CryptoWall En Spora, en werd een van de dominante, if not the most dominant, ransom software.Echter, over the past few months, the number of GandCrab infections has begun to decrease, and recently, on the cybercriminal forum Exploit.in, malware operators published a notification about the termination of their business.
Volgens het rapport, the malware brought its operators about $2 miljard (an average of $ 2.5 million per week). Net profit amounted to $150 miljoen, which were withdrawn and invested in legal companies.
In this regard, further sales of GandCrab cease, and partners must stop its distribution within 20 dagen. Binnen een maand, the topic dedicated to the malware will also be deleted from Exploit.in.
“We are leaving for a well-deserved retirement, we have proved that by doing evil deeds, retribution does not come.”, — said GandCrab operators.
Onder andere, GandCrab operators warned their victims about the need to pay ransom immediately, because soon all the encryption keys will be deleted and files cannot be recovered.
Bron: https://www.zdnet.com