What is RaaS?
Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) is a cybercrime business model, resembling a structure similar to organized crime, that allows ransomware operators to sell their malicious code to other hackers, facilitating them to execute their own ransomware attacks. It functions as an arrangement between an operator, who creates and maintains the tools for extortion, and an affiliate, who deploys the ransomware payload. Upon successful ransomware and extortion attacks, both the operator and the affiliate share the profits.
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RaaS is typically a subscription-based system, thus making ransomware attacks accessible even to inexperienced cybercriminals by eliminating the need for them to write malicious code themselves.
