For ransomware actors, innovation is a key to success, as crime gangs look for new ways to dupe people and make crypto-locking malware even more lucrative. Some hacking groups have started cold-calling victims to inform them that their systems have been hit by ransomware and request a ransom to resolve the situation. An old, yet tried and true use of chicanery. Sometime old schemes become new schemes. This is just the latest in a long line of shakedown tactics, which include not just using c
