According to a new report by Flashpoint, high-ranking users and RAMP administrators are now actively attempting to communicate with new forum members in machine-translated Chinese. The forum has reportedly had at least thirty new user registrations that appear to come from China, so this could be the beginning of something notable. The researchers suggest that the most probable cause is that Russian ransomware gangs seek to build alliances with Chinese actors to launch cyber-attacks against U.S. targets, trade vulnerabilities, or even recruit new talent for their Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operations.”

To read the report posted by Flashpoint – https://www.flashpoint-intel.com/blog/ramp-ransomware-chinese-threat-actors/

According to a report from NordPass, people haven’t yet stopped relying on done-to-death passwords such as ”123456,” ”12345,” ”password,” and ”qwerty,” while research reveals that these three are the weakest passwords nowadays and can easily make you vulnerable to hacking. The password 123456 appeared over 103 million times in NordPass’s research. The study involved around fifty countries, and researchers conducted gender comparisons to reach a fair conclusion. As many as 222,287 females used ”iloveyou” as their password in the US, while 96,785 men used the same.

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