Cyber ​​attacks: double extortion, a growing threat to businesses

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Our team is negotiating the sale of a large quantity of confidential assembly drawings and gigabits of data with several major brands."

This threat, signed by the cybercriminal group REvil, is aimed at the American giant Apple. If it does not pay a ransom of $ 50 million by May 1, its competitors could benefit from the release of some sensitive data. It is by attacking a major subcontractor of the American IT group, the Taiwanese Quanta Computer, which assembles computers for Apple, that the hackers have recovered this data. As Quanta refused to pay the ransom for server encryption, the hackers activated another plan to achieve their ends: recovering millions of dollars.

This example sums up a growing trend in ransomware attacks seen in recent months: double extortion.

It consists, for criminals, in exfiltrating information, then reselling it to the highest bidder or to

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