VERY IMPORTANT

ClearSky conducts consistent monitoring of various Darknet actors and communities, including specific actors that develop and sell malware, exploits, bots and ransomware. We have recently encountered very aggressive jabber spam campaign, advertising the “Philadelphia” ransomware. As Brian Krebs wrote in one of his recent post, Philadelphia is a ransomware-as-a-service crime ware package that is sold for roughly $400 to would-be cyber criminals who dream of carving out their own ransomware empires. Philadelphia has many features, including the ability to generate PDF reports and charts of victims to track the campaigns, as well as the ability to plot victims around the world using Google Maps.