Ransomware attacks delivered and monetised with little technical knowledge

The model of ransomware attacks has definitely moved for a backroom hackers sending malware out, to a corporation style operation, complete with updates, support and marketing of the illicit tools. Small opportunist threat actors remain, and always will, hackers have to start somewhere, as is shown by this article at Bleeping Computers complex tools are being made available to them:

New Redeemer ransomware version promoted on hacker forums (bleepingcomputer.com)

Redeemer ransomware comes complete with a friendly graphical user interface, help pages and AV avoidance. This malware is free to the unskilled threat actor, the malware creator just wants 20% of any ransoms collected!