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arlier, the administration of the XSS site announced a ban on topics related to ransomware.
The team of the largest cybercriminal forum Exploit has decided to ban topics related to ransomware, so as not to attract too much attention. Earlier this week, a similar decision and for the same reasons was made by the administration of the popular Russian-language site XSS.
“We are glad to penetrate testers, specialists, coders. But they are not happy with lockers, they attract a lot of attention. The very type of activity is not pleasant to us in view of the fact that everything is located in a row, we do not consider it advisable to be present on our forum, partner programs of lockers. It was decided to remove all affiliate programs and prohibit them as a type of activity on our forum. All topics related to lockers will be removed, ”reads a statement on the Exploit website.
Operators of the ransomware have already expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of the administration of the forums. For example, representatives of the extortionist group REvil announced that they would "move" to a private platform within a week.
In the same week it became known that the DarkSide group, responsible for the sensational attack on the American company Colonial Pipeline, which led to disruptions in the supply of fuel in part of the United States, lost access to part of the public infrastructure, including the blog, payment and CDN servers. The team also lost money stored on the payment server, which was transferred to an unknown address.
According to a representative of the REvil team (the DarkSide ransomware program is considered a variant of the REvil ransomware), DarkSide has closed its RaaS service.
Also REvil announced new restrictions for its partners. They include a ban on attacks by organizations from the social sector (health, education) and government structures in any country.
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The team of the largest cybercriminal forum Exploit has decided to ban topics related to ransomware, so as not to attract too much attention. Earlier this week, a similar decision and for the same reasons was made by the administration of the popular Russian-language site XSS.
“We are glad to penetrate testers, specialists, coders. But they are not happy with lockers, they attract a lot of attention. The very type of activity is not pleasant to us in view of the fact that everything is located in a row, we do not consider it advisable to be present on our forum, partner programs of lockers. It was decided to remove all affiliate programs and prohibit them as a type of activity on our forum. All topics related to lockers will be removed, ”reads a statement on the Exploit website.
Operators of the ransomware have already expressed dissatisfaction with the decision of the administration of the forums. For example, representatives of the extortionist group REvil announced that they would "move" to a private platform within a week.
In the same week it became known that the DarkSide group, responsible for the sensational attack on the American company Colonial Pipeline, which led to disruptions in the supply of fuel in part of the United States, lost access to part of the public infrastructure, including the blog, payment and CDN servers. The team also lost money stored on the payment server, which was transferred to an unknown address.
According to a representative of the REvil team (the DarkSide ransomware program is considered a variant of the REvil ransomware), DarkSide has closed its RaaS service.
Also REvil announced new restrictions for its partners. They include a ban on attacks by organizations from the social sector (health, education) and government structures in any country.
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