On Demand: Vice Society's Double Extortion - Demanding Ransom and Threatening Data Leaks

Vice Society is making headlines since its initiation after making continuous high-profile targeted attacks on the education and healthcare sectors.

As of May 2023, the group has emerged as one of the most prevalent Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) gangs. It employs a double extortion scheme, which means it first steals data from victim networks before encrypting while simultaneously threatening to publish the information on the dark web unless a ransom is paid.

Watch this webinar on-demand and discover more about Vice Society’s infection chain, how it operates, and how to use Logpoint Converged SIEM to detect, investigate, and respond to Vice Society.

Read our report on Vice Society before the webinar and get up to speed on this Emerging Threat.

On-Demand Webinar details: 

Presenter: Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel. Security Analyst

Key Webinar Info:

• Vice Society as of May 2023 has become one of the most prevalent Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) gangs by publishing data from six schools on their leak site, with no indication of slowing down their activities.
• In 2022, Vice Society was the largest attacker in the education sector as reported by Malwarebytes.
• Vice Society is a relatively new Russian-speaking hacking group that arose in the summer of 2021 with the motive of intrusion, exfiltration, and extortion which made headlines through 2022.
• They employ a double extortion scheme, stealing data from victim networks before encryption and threatening to publish the data on the dark web unless a ransom is paid.