Using Ransomware to Extort Employers by Impersonating a Gang

In a court in Fleetwood, Hertfordshire, a 28-year-old United Kingdom man has been found guilty of serving his employer with a forged document and unauthorized access to his computer with criminal intent. 

SEROCU has released a press release explaining the conviction of Ashley Liles, a 29-year-old IT Security Analyst at a company in Oxford that was the victim of a ransomware attack in February 2018. According to the press release, Liles worked as an IT Security Analyst at the time. 

The cybercriminals contacted the company’s executive team to demand a ransom payment, the same plan used in many ransomware attacks.

As part of the company’s internal investigation efforts and the incident response initiative, Liles, as well as other company members and members of the police, joined the investigation and incident response effort. 

As a result, during this period, it is said that Liles tried to enrich himself from the attack by tricking his employer into paying him a ransom instead of the actual external attacker to enrich himself. 

The SEROCU announcement reads, “Instead of pursuing a criminal case against the company, Liles also began a further and secon

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