{"id":13579,"date":"2026-06-13T02:03:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/silent-ransom-group-what-you-need-to-know\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:03:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:03:37","slug":"silent-ransom-group-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/silent-ransom-group-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Ransom Group: what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Silent Ransom Group: 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>Most extortion gangs hide behind a keyboard. Silent Ransom Group will phone your staff pretending to be IT support &#8211; and if that fails, send someone to your office in person to plug in a USB stick. <\/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\/silent-ransom-group-what-you-need-know\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silent Ransom Group: what you need to know Most extortion gangs hide behind a keyboard. Silent Ransom Group will phone your staff pretending to be IT support &#8211; and if that fails, send someone to your office in person to plug in a USB stick. Read more in my article on the Fortra blog. Graham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,54,155,164,2051,2519],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-13579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-ransom","category-silent-ransom-group","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579"}],"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=13579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}