Prometheus and Grief – two new emerging ransomware gangs targeting enterprises. Mexican Government data is published for sale.

From securityaffairs.co

In today’s world, information and data means money and the people that are stealing the information have now reached new levels of sophistication. The number of cases reported has exploded in the last few years and continue to grow rapidly.  

Prometheus is a new emerging ransomware group extorting enterprises in various verticals across the globe. Just recently, the group has published a stolen data allegedly belonging to the Mexican Government which still remains available for sale today, and possibly becoming the first cybercriminal group that has touched a major state in Latin America on such a level. 

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