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If I'd just collected enough ransom to retire and never work again, I'd also put out a press release announcing I was out of business and someone seized all my

• hooande 5y ago
  Darkside was a legit business. They routinely collected ransoms ten or twenty times larger than what they got from Colonial. if they were going to retire, they would have done it a long time ago
  • snypher 5y ago
    Didn't Colonial pay $5m? I don't think Darkside ever received a $50m-$100m ransom. Do you have any more details?
    • hooande 5y ago
      They don't have financial reports and insurance companies don't routinely disclose ransom amounts. Darkside has opened negotiations in the tens of millions in the past [0], with an average demand in the millions [1] [0] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-darkside-ransomware-gang/ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/a-closer-look-at-the-dar... [1] https://www.areteir.com/darkside-ransomware-caviar-taste-on-your-big-game-budget/ https://www.areteir.com/darkside-ransomware-caviar-taste-on-...
  • fuzzylightbulb 5y ago
    I can't find evidence of this "routinely collected ransoms ten or twenty times larger than what they got from Colonial" claim. Colonial is rumored to have paid out ~$4mm. Every source about Darkside seems to cite a "between $200,000 and $2 million for the file decryption key" range. This would put the Colonial ransom far above their typical payout.