REvil hackers leaks email conversation on Trump amid ransom demand

From hackread.com

According to REvil hackers, aka Sodinokibi, the email contains “harmless information” on Trump enough to prove that the group has data on him.

When ransomware attacks occur, the basic premise behind them is that the attackers will demand a sum of money in exchange for either decrypting the victim’s data or not leaking it. However, not every time does the victim pay and that is where things can go down south.

One case to exemplify this is that of a New York-based media and entertainment law firm named Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks which became the victim of the REvil ransomware group leaking 756GB worth of data on the 9th of May, earlier this month.

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