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A new extortion cocktail: office printers, small ransoms, and BitLocker
July 21, 2026 · Kaspersky (Securelist) · Severity: MEDIUM
Attackers use BitLocker encryption and office printers to extort organizations in Latin America for small ransoms.
Key Takeaways
- Recently, our teams in Latin America investigated a series of incidents involving misconfiguration, the deployment of BitLocker, and the exploitation.
- Attackers used the devices to notify organizations that their infrastructure had been compromised and they had to pay a ransom to recover their data.
- This analyzes two incidents that occurred in June in Colombia and in May in Mexico.