This week we talk the economics of Ransomware as a service, a new method of infecting hosts using bookmarklets, China calling the kettle black, and another internal threat trying to get a ransomware payment.
Article 1 - Ransomware-as-a-service groups rain money on their affiliates
Article 2 - Discord Admins Hacked by Malicious Bookmarks
Supporting Articles:
Wikipedia - Bookmarklet
Article 3 - China labels USA 'Empire of hacking' based on old Wikileaks dumps
Article 4 - IT employee impersonates ransomware gang to extort employer
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