The Russia-based Babuk ransomware gang says it will not launch any more hack attacks. But they will be making their malicious malware source code available for the use of future attackers.
The gang issued a statement on their darknet website: “The babuk project will be closed, its source code will be made publicly available, we will do something like Open Source RaaS, everyone can make their own product based on our product.”
Babuk is a new player. They were first implicated in the December 2020 ransomware attack of the Houston Rockets basketball team.
Last week the DarkSide ransomware gang apologized for attacking the Columbia Pipeline in the U.S. The Maze, Ziggy, and Fonix ransomware attack teams all claim they are abandoning their hacking activities. But these groups also made their ransomware’s decryptor keys available. So their victims can regain access to the stolen/encrypted data.
On the other hand, Babuk is still trying to collect a ransom.
Babar ransomware gang leaking D.C. police information
Babuk took credit for last month’s hacking into the Washington D.C. police department’s internal computer network. They threatened to leak details of confidential informants if they didn’t receive an unspecified ransom. And they initially gave the police only three days to pay up.
