Ragnar Locker Gang Warns Victims Not to Call the FBI

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All that the FBI/ransomware negotiators/investigators do is muck things up, so we’re going to publish your stuff if you call for help, the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang announced on its darknet data-leak site.
 
In an announcement posted this week and seen by Bleeping Computer, the ransomware operators threatened to publish all the data of victimized organizations that seek help from law enforcement or investigators following ransomware attacks.
 
The same goes for victims that call in data-recovery experts who try to decrypt files and/or help out with negotiating the ransom and/or the decryption process.

“In our practice we has facing with the professional negotiators much more often in last days,” the announcement said in broken-English-ese. “Unfortunately it’s not making the process easier or safer, on the contrary it’s actually makes all even worse.”

Such negotiators are either affiliated with law enforcement or investigators or working directly with them, the gang asserted. Either way, they’re in it for themselves and don’t care about their clients’ financial well-being or their data privacy, the group said.
 
To rub salt into the wounds of the companies that Ragnar Locker preys upon, the gang went on to refer to their victims as “clients,” as if any of their long list of targets had mulled it all over and decided that it was high time to have their files encrypted and their businesses paralyzed and had therefore contracted with the Ragnar Locker group to get the job done.
 
“So from this moment we warn all our clients, if you will hire any recovery company for negotiations or if you will send requests to the Police/FBI/Investigators, we will consider this as a hostile attempt and we will initiate the publication of whole compromised Data immediately,” the gang warned. “Don’t think please that any negotiators will be able to deceive us, we have enough experience and many ways to recognize such a lie.”

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