Ep. 75 - The Franchise Model: How Medusa Turned Ransomware Into a Business
Medusa ransomware has went from 300 victims to more than 500, and CISA, FBI, and MS-ISAC just refreshed advisory AA25-071A with new IOCs and TTPs. Tova Dvorin and Adrian Culley unpack the ransomware-as-a-service franchise behind it: the ScreenConnect and Fortinet EMS CVEs still opening doors, three tiers of PowerShell obfuscation, gaze.exe killing shadow copies before AES-256 encryption, and the triple-extortion case where one victim was made to pay twice.