{"id":4789,"date":"2025-06-21T02:02:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T02:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/qilin-offers-call-a-lawyer-button-for-affiliates-attempting-to-extort-ransoms-from-victims-who-wont-pay\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T02:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T02:02:05","slug":"qilin-offers-call-a-lawyer-button-for-affiliates-attempting-to-extort-ransoms-from-victims-who-wont-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/qilin-offers-call-a-lawyer-button-for-affiliates-attempting-to-extort-ransoms-from-victims-who-wont-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Qilin offers \u201cCall a lawyer\u201d button for affiliates attempting to extort ransoms from victims who won\u2019t pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Qilin offers \u201cCall a lawyer\u201d button for affiliates attempting to extort ransoms from victims who won\u2019t pay<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Imagine for one moment that you are a cybercriminal.<\/p>\n<p>You have compromised an organisation&#8217;s network, you have stolen their data, you have encrypted their network, and you are now knee-deep in the ransomware negotiation.<\/p>\n<p>However, there&#8217;s a problem. Your target is stalling for time. Who can you, as the perpetrator of the crime rather than the innocent victim, turn to for advice?<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security 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.tripwire.com\/state-of-security\/qilin-offers-call-lawyer-button-affiliates-attempting-extort-ransoms-victims\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qilin offers \u201cCall a lawyer\u201d button for affiliates attempting to extort ransoms from victims who won\u2019t pay Imagine for one moment that you are a cybercriminal. You have compromised an organisation&#8217;s network, you have stolen their data, you have encrypted their network, and you are now knee-deep in the ransomware negotiation. However, there&#8217;s a problem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,155,258,1056,231],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-4789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-malware","category-qilin","category-ransomware","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789"}],"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=4789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}