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Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by notafraudster on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:06PM (#26638075)
This piece is oddly copy-edited. Paragraph 7 refers to "the infamous hacker group" and paragraph 5 "the cyber-criminal gang", but both of these expressions are serving as a pronoun reference to a previously named group. Then you look up to see if you missed the actual name of the hacking group, or even a link to the post, and... nope!

Then below the headline "The New Normal", a second group is introduced as "another ransomware group". I assume "another ransomware group" is the group subsequently referred to as "the relatively new gang". Also, relative to whom or what?

I am assuming the author of the piece originally named the groups or provided the detail you'd expect to have it make sense. Then editorial/legal spiked the names but did not copy-edit the rest of the piece to flow around the changes? I mention this because the article also weirdly edits around the nature or name of the firm targeted in the first story.

Weird.

Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by FDSGSG on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:43PM (#26638579)
>editorial/legal spiked the names

That would be bizarre too. You can name Al-Qaeda and ISIS, but not ransomware groups?

Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by Blikkentrekker on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:44PM (#26638601)
In many jurisdictions or some online discussion boards, one can name by name the already famous, but not the unknown, behind which is certainly a measure of thought.
Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by FDSGSG on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @02:46PM (#26638624)
I've heard of such rules in regards to names of persons, but never in regards to names of groups such as these.
Re:'We have your porn collection': The rise of extortionware by junon on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:48PM (#26639478)
This applies to people in every case I've personally ever heard of. There's never been a bar against naming groups of hacktivists or malicious groups.