The new cybercrime operation is named after and uses the same logo as the mysterious 2012-2014 online/real-world game named Cicada 3301 that involved elaborate cryptographic puzzles. However ...

SEE: Ransomware Cheat Sheet for 2024 The Cicada 3301 puzzle project has released a statement distancing itself from the RaaS group, saying: “We do not know the identity of the criminals behind ...

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Called “Repellent Scorpius,” the RaaS group first emerged in May and distributed Cicada3301 ransomware.

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The puzzle competitions met with greater interest. This resulted in the rather mediocre feature film "Dark Web: Cicada 3301" in 2021.

The emergence of Cicada3301 has also prompted an eponymous "non-political movement," which has dabbled in "mysterious" cryptographic puzzles, to issue a statement that it has no connection to the ...