many other ransomware groups<\/a>, DragonForce tries to extort money from its victims by locking companies out of their computers until a ransom is paid. Failing that, it blackmails the company by stealing data, which it threatens to release on the dark web.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nDragonForce is apparently unrelated to the Malaysian pro-Palestine hacktivist group of the same name whose attacks against government agencies in the Middle East are motivated by politics and not financial gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ohio Lottery has admitted that the names and social security numbers of more than 538K customers were compromised in a cyberattack on Christmas Eve last year. In a regulatory filing, the lottery said it concluded its investigation into the attack on April 5, adding that there was no evidence the stolen data had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":319927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13699,16693],"tags":[84216,90900,87847,86184,84238],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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