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Ransomware Evolves: Encrypting Out, Bug Bounty In [July 2022]

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Ransomware as a business

Ransomware attacks have proven to be enormously profitable for criminal organizations with victims paying more than $600 million in 2021, according to Chainalysis.


This is funding a rapid evolution of the criminal ransomware industry as seen most saliently in emergence of the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) business model, where affiliates pay for ransomware developed by operators to launch attacks.


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