BianLian ransomware refocuses on data extortion attacks

BianLian ransomware gang has been noted by a joint advisory from the FBI, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and Australia's Cyber Security Centre to have changed up its operations to leverage exfiltration-based extortion rather than ransomware encryption it initially used since its emergence two years ago, SiliconAngle reports.

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