BlackSuit ransomware – what you need to know

What’s going on? A cybercriminal group calling itself BlackSuit has claimed responsibility for a series of ransomware attacks, including breaches at schools in central Georgia . And earlier in the year, a zoo in Tampa Bay was targeted by the same hacking gang. Meanwhile, liberal arts college DePauw University in Indiana says that it was recently targeted, and a “limited amount of data on specific individuals was accessed.” 214GB of stolen data has since been made available for download on BlackSuit’s extortion site on the dark web. How come I haven’t heard of BlackSuit before? Chances are that…