Fancy Lazarus DDoS extortion group is back with new campaign focused on unprotected assets

Radware, a provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, published a cybersecurity alert warning that Fancy Lazarus, a well-known distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortionist, has resurfaced with a new campaign focused on organizations with unprotected assets across all sizes of companies in all industries.

Less than a year ago, a Ransom DDoS threat actor posing as “Fancy Bear" and "Lazarus Group” was targeting specific industries such as finance, travel, and e-commerce organizations and was blind to whether these organizations had DDoS protection or not.  This earlier campaign turned out to be one of the most extensive and longest-running DDoS extortion campaigns in history.