Ransomware Leak Sites Professionalized ransomware groups including Conti, Ragnar Locker, Maze, Clop and others have been exploiting security holes created by the emergency shift to remote work due to the pandemic, coupled with well-publicized leak sites to wreak havoc and wring millions out of unsuspecting companies like Advantech. And in the case of Advantech, the longer it waits to decide, the more expensive the ransom gets. "In August 2020, the Conti ransomware group created a data leak website, called Conti.News, following the trend of other highly successful ransomware variants, such as Maze, Sodinokibi and NetWalker," Digital Shadows threat researcher Kacey Clark told Threatpost. "The group's ransom demands require victims to make their payments in Bitcoin, and for each day a victim does not contact the attackers, the ransom demand increases by BTC 0.5."