Ransomware attacks continue to dominate the 2021 threat landscape, edging closer and closer to being deemed a state security problem in the Western world.
Acts of extortion arising from the rogue usage of data encryption algorithms may soon be treated on par with terrorism, as currently there seem to be no other type of a cyber attack that can affect the lives of so many people and the functioning of so many institutions.
Two months ago I wrote a quick set of tips on how to protect yourself from ransomware – but unfortunately prevention is never enough.
And that’s where Ransomwhe.re steps in: the first crowdsourced and free to use platform for collecting and collating information related to the payments of online ransoms.
The idea of the platform is simple – ransomware victims (or researchers) can upload information regarding the ransom demands they were hit with, including the following: