Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's Research Saturday.

I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts

tracking down threats and vulnerabilities, solving some of the hard problems of

protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

Thanks for joining us.

The initial thought of this was when big ransomware says Reevil, Darkside, and others go away,

if I'm an affiliate, where should I go, right?

And that evolution of trying to keep track of these

Rensselaer families that are now trying to get a piece of that cake. That's

Doel Santos he's a threat intelligence analyst at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.

The research we're discussing today is titled Ransomware Groups to Watch Emerging Threats. threats. Well, let's go through it together. I mean, there are four main groups that you highlight

here. Can we start off just by listing who did we cover in this report?

Sure, yeah, and this week in this particular report I selected Ava's Locker,

Hive Leaks, Log Big 2.0, and Hellakiti, that's part of the initial part of the report.

Well, let's go through them together one at a time and point out some of the specifics about each group.

Why don't we start with Avoslocker?

Yeah, Avoslocker is quite interesting.

The way that I stumbled across this ransomware

was taking a look at a Dark web discussion forum called dread.

For those who don't know, dread is similar to Reddit

of the dark web.

Some people post news, post information over there.

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