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DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt
DeadLock ransomware uses Polygon smart contracts, Session, and blockchain-hosted leak content to make extortion infrastructure harder to disrupt.
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The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience.
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