REvil Revival: Are Ransomware Gangs Ever Really Gone?

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Evidence that members of the defunct REvil group may be reviving the ransomware gang continues to accumulate, but cybersecurity experts question whether the group will have the same impact that it once did.

On April 29, anti-malware firm Avast revealed that the company’s software had blocked a ransomware sample that appeared to be generated using information that only previous members of the REvil group could have accessed. The discovery of the file came more than a week after cybersecurity firm Emsisoft revealed that the Web address of REvil’s leak site now points to a new host, using both the REvil name and claiming to have compromised a US university and an oil company in India.

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