Microsoft Security solutions to support the US National Cybersecurity Strategy

Jun 03, 2024

Microsoft coined the term “human-operated ransomware” to clearly define a class of attack driven by expert human intelligence at every step of the attack chain and culminate in intentional business disruption and extortion. In this blog, we explain the ransomware as a service (RaaS) affiliate model and disambiguate between the attacker tools and the various threat actors at play during a security incident.