ThreatsDay Analysis: Ransomware Affiliate Fraud, Exposed Tools, and Emerging Cyber Threats

A ransomware affiliate betrayed their group by retaining profits, while exposed servers revealed hacker tools and intrusion evidence. Malicious code was also found in developer packages and extensions.

The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an attacker left a server exposed, complete with tools and traces of an intrusion. Apparently, keeping things secure is a problem on both sides of the fence.

The rest of the week isn't much more reassuring. Malicious code turned up in developer packages and extensions that

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