Wizard Spider, is the gang that is behind the malware Conti, Ryuk and Trickbot. Research by PRODAFT has examined their growth and operations over the last five years that has built an illicit corporate-like multimillion-dollar organisation.
Terms like “full-service”, “it manages the entire lifecycle of a cyberattack” and “it invests in R&D” make them sound like any other software vendor – I have sat through many meeting where the salesman has quoted such words at me.
Wizard Spider Group In-Depth Analysis – PRODAFT
Just one example of the corporate like structure is the practice of employing cold callers to encourage ransomware victims to pay.
Wizard Spider hackers hire cold callers to scare ransomware victims into paying up | ZDNet
Do not make the mistake of under estimating the threat cyber crime poses to your organisation. You may not be a primary target, to small, not enough money, etc., but you could easily be caught up in one of their or one of their partner’s operations as sending malware by email is probably the easiest way of getting malicious code into any organisation – large or small.
There are plenty of options for cyber security training – but make sure whatever you choose is not an advert for the vendor to sell you more, but actually equips you and your people with cyber security skills.
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Cyber Awake | Train Your Team To Protect Against Cyber Attacks
Further Reading
Wizard Spider, the multimillion-dollar gang behind Conti • The Register
