HellCat Ransomware: What You Need To Know

What is HellCat? HellCat is the name of a relatively new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that first came to prominence in the second half of 2024. Like many other ransomware operations, HellCat breaks into organisations, steals sensitive files, and encrypts computer systems – demanding a ransom payment for a decryption key and to prevent the leaking of stolen files. So it’s your typical “double extortion” threat? Yes, although HellCat has been known to take a rather unusual twist on things when it comes to plying on the pressure. What do you mean? Well, for instance, when it claimed to…