A hacker — who claims to have been part of one of the world's most successful gangs — tells us why Australia is a target and laughs at the distress caused by the Medibank data breach.
What would you say to the person who stole your personal data, held it ransom and posted it on the dark web?
Hackers — also known as "affiliates" — gain access to an organisation. They steal sensitive data and then encrypt an organisation's files using a gang's ransomware application.Hackers steal sensitive data from a company and then encrypt its files. as Four Corners travels to Ukraine in search of answers about the criminal syndicate behind one of Australia’s largest-ever data breaches.REvil – short for Ransomware Evil – was prolific in 2020 and 2021, carrying out dozens of attacks and raking in at least $US200 million.
The hacker who negotiated with Medibank claimed to be affiliated with several gangs, including REvil. Last year's Medibank hack left the personal details of millions of Australians exposed on the dark web.If you typed in the address for the REvil's leak site into your browser, you would be redirected to the page that hosted the Medibank leak.
Kerasid may have worked for REvil, and still be involved with this REvil offshoot, but we don't have proof of that. Jeremy Kirk from Cyber Threat Intelligence says all the big cyber gangs, including REvil, are thought to have a similar structure. "They were higher-than-average salaries that you have in these locales, but … the people down below were not really rewarded very greatly," Kirk says.
Even if individual hackers and cyber criminals have not been co-opted by the government, analysts say, many are taking independent action against Ukraine anyway.
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