Hackers exploit ransomware as it enables them to extort money from victims by encrypting their data and demanding a ransom for its release.  While this method is highly lucrative and often difficult to trace back to the perpetrators. Sentinel One researchers recently discovered that Hacktivist groups like Ikaruz Red Team increasingly use ransomware for disruption and drawing attention to political causes.  Leveraging leaked builders, Ikaruz Red Team and aligned groups like Turk Hack Team and Anka Underground have recently conducted attacks against Philippine targets, hijacking branding from the government’s CERT-PH.

Source: GBHackers