DOGE Ransomware Hackers Demand $1 Trillion

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

The same criminal group behind the DOGE Big Balls ransomware attack has just upped the ante. A newly updated ransom note sent to victims is now trolling Elon Musk and DOGE with a demand for, are you sitting down, one trillion dollars.

Posted by Corky at 11:34 AM | 5 COMMENTS | permalink

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"Give me five bullet points on what you accomplished for work last week or you owe me a TRILLION dollars."

"The ransomware payload embedded in the samples has been verified as FOG ransomware," the Trend Micro report warned, "an active ransomware family targeting both individuals and organizations." As such, it's imperative that you do not think that just because the attackers might act like clowns, the threat itself isn't serious.

Indeed, the ransomware demand itself is all business to begin with. "We are the ones who encrypted your data and also copied some of it to our internal resource," the attackers state. "

Just desserts.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-23 11:37 AM

And Felon Musk pissed off these guys too:

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#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 12:06 PM

I wonder if blond vampire Pam Bondi will issue the same threats against these guys like she did about the Tesla vandals?

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-23 12:08 PM

I wonder what vulnerabilities DOGE may be leaving behind as they access the Federal computer systems?

www.theregister.com

... According to Berulis' disclosure, DOGE operatives arrived at the agency on March 3 in a black SUV that enjoyed a police escort. The same day, he claims, an agency assistant chief information officer (ACIO) told him that DOGE aides would be given accounts "with essentially unrestricted permission to read, copy, and alter data." Creation of such accounts was not standard operating procedure, but the ACIO said those rules must be ignored and the opening of the accounts was not to be logged. ...

"In the same conversation it was conveyed that we were to hand over any requested accounts, stay out of DOGE's way entirely, and assist them when they asked," he recounted.

Within days, Berulis says, he began to notice worrying signs, such as alerting and monitoring tools being switched off and changes to multi-factor authentication. ...

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-04-23 12:36 PM

"I wonder, wonder... who wrote the Book of Love?"

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-04-23 12:48 PM

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