{"id":11498,"date":"2026-03-21T02:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/leaknet-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T02:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T02:03:48","slug":"leaknet-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/21\/leaknet-ransomware-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"LeakNet ransomware: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    LeakNet ransomware: what you need to know<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A ransomware gang that claims to be a group of &#8220;investigative journalists&#8221;? Meet LeakNet &#8211; the group using fake CAPTCHA pages to trick employees into hacking themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fortra.com\/blog\/leaknet-ransomware-what-you-need-know\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeakNet ransomware: what you need to know A ransomware gang that claims to be a group of &#8220;investigative journalists&#8221;? Meet LeakNet &#8211; the group using fake CAPTCHA pages to trick employees into hacking themselves. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,54,155,2384,258,231],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-11498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-leaknet","category-malware","category-ransomware","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498"}],"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=11498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}