Researchers Share Techniques to Uncover Anonymized Ransomware Sites on Dark Web

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Anonymized Ransomware Sites on Dark Web

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the various measures ransomware actors have taken to obscure their true identity online as well as the hosting location of their web server infrastructure.

“Most ransomware operators use hosting providers outside their country of origin (such as Sweden, Germany, and Singapore) to host their ransomware operations sites,” Cisco Talos researcher Paul Eubanks said. “They use VPS hop-points as a proxy to hide their true location when they connect to their ransomware web infrastructure for remote administration tasks.”

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