The DeadLock ransomware group is leveraging decentralized infrastructure, including Polygon blockchain smart contracts and the Session messaging network, to enhance the resilience of their extortion operations. This approach makes their victim communication channels and data leak infrastructure significantly harder for law enforcement and security teams to disrupt or take down.
The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience. "Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that store and deliver resources used throughout the extortion process," the Microsoft Threat
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