Initial Access Merchant Offerings & Ransomware Victims: Mapping Breached Entities & Threat Actors

SANS Ransomware Summit 2022

Speakers:
Samantha Van de Ven, Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst, Intel471
Beth Allen, Senior Intelligence Analyst, Intel471

As initial access merchants continue to significantly impact financially motivated ransomware activity in the cyber underground, it is important to gain a better understanding of the connection between network access offerings and ransomware breaches. Intel 471 analyzed victims of compromised access and ransomware operators' victims' blog posts to determine patterns and relationships. These include the average dwell time between the …

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