MonoLock ransomware toolkit for sale on dark web forum screen capture

MonoLock Ransomware: What Security Teams Must Know Today

Actors on underground forums are now selling a turnkey ransomware toolkit named MonoLock v1.0 designed to target small and medium organisations, disable backups, encrypt data at scale via AES-256/RSA-2048, and demand payment through an automated Tor portal. Security teams must recognise this shift in the ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) business model and reinforce detection, defence and incident response accordingly.

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Illustration of a Money Mart storefront and digital database icons overlaid with a red ransomware warning and masked hacker silhouette, representing the Everest ransomware attack and consumer financial data breach

Inside the Money Mart ransomware and Everest’s latest data-leak

Everest claims it breached Money Mart and stole more than 80,000 internal files from a “National Money Mart Company DataBase,” turning the attack into a major consumer financial data breach. This analysis explains how the Money Mart ransomware attack unfolded, why a payday-loan provider makes an attractive target, and what the incident means for customers and other financial-services firms.

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