“GoodWill” requires its victims to perform social actions to get the encrypted data back instead of transferring Bitcoins. “
“GoodWill” a modern Robin Hood?
For example, the victims have to donate clothes to the homeless and pay the bills of the sick. Of course, the essence of ransomware remains extortion of companies, and it can cause great harm to those affected, while the hacker group styles itself as a kind of modern-day Robin Hood.
Compulsively do good and post it!
Once the victims have carried out all the actions, they also have to publish a post about it on social media. No specific victims are known at this time, and the exact tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) used to carry out the attacks are still unclear.
The end does not justify the means
There is understandably great public interest in such seemingly selfless acts against the privileged. However, the basis of these attacks is the use of ransomware to impose one's will, and this is never a noble gesture. Even if at first glance the intention to do good for the disadvantaged gives this impression.
Source: Press portal
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