{"id":11409,"date":"2026-03-17T22:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/less-lucrative-ransomware-market-makes-attackers-alter-methods\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T22:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T22:04:03","slug":"less-lucrative-ransomware-market-makes-attackers-alter-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/less-lucrative-ransomware-market-makes-attackers-alter-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Less Lucrative Ransomware Market Makes Attackers Alter Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Less Lucrative Ransomware Market Makes Attackers Alter Methods<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Ransomware actors are ditching Cobalt Strike in favor of native Windows tools, as payment rates hit record lows and data theft surges.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Alexander Culafi<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/threat-intelligence\/less-lucrative-ransomware-market-makes-attackers-alter-methods\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less Lucrative Ransomware Market Makes Attackers Alter Methods Ransomware actors are ditching Cobalt Strike in favor of native Windows tools, as payment rates hit record lows and data theft surges. Alexander Culafi Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-11409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}