Multiple ransomware data leak sites experience DDoS attacks, facing intermittent outages and connectivity issues

• Since Aug. 20, 2022, Cisco Talos has been monitoring suspected distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks resulting in intermittent downtime and outages affecting several ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) data leak sites.
• While the source and origin of this activity remain unknown, this appears to be a concentrated effort against RaaS leak sites to disrupt their efforts to announce and post new victim information.
• Actors' responses have varied, with LockBit and ALPHV implementing new measures …

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