Negotiation Chat – Dragonforce
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Hello, I am reaching out regarding our encryption issue
2025-01-25T17:38:28.964451Z
Need to know what the next steps are
2025-01-25T17:39:01.481152Z
Hello, please wait, we are exploring your financial possibilities, and then we will tell you the amount to pay.
2025-01-25T17:41:54.644682Z
NASltd_list_of_files.zip filesize:2496907
2025-01-25T18:45:12.332003Z
is a list of files we stole from your network.
2025-01-25T18:46:03.774012Z
For decrypting and deleting the stolen data, including a commitment that we will not post or announce your hack on our blog price 5 bitcoins. You can do a test decrypt (if you haven't already). You can also examine the files we stole, choose a few random files to make sure we are telling the truth, we will provide these random files to you.
2025-01-25T18:52:31.028698Z
The file list you sent when downloaded comes as attachment.htm not [redacted].zip. How can I get the zip file?
2025-01-25T18:54:37.738495Z
http://temp.sh/drpwd/[redacted].zip
2025-01-25T18:59:52.753191Z
Got the list but it only contains data from one of my servers. How about the other data?
2025-01-25T19:06:47.211473Z
The rest of the data can be recovered. I sent the data that was stolen. Encrypted files can all be recovered.
2025-01-25T19:08:25.016840Z
We provide a program that automatically decrypts the data on all servers.
2025-01-25T19:10:37.535688Z
OK
2025-01-25T19:10:48.284323Z
But I think there is a mistake in your price. Looks like 5 bitcoins is about 500K USD. I don't make that much in two years combined! Not to mention, I live in a place called Altadena in California where we had major fires and I lost my house with everything in it with no insurance. This would be impossible to pay!
2025-01-25T19:13:41.750406Z
No there was no mistake. But we're open to talking. We can discount it to a reasonable amount. I think losing your reputation altogether would be worse.
2025-01-25T19:18:15.900193Z
I spoke to two of my friends who had the same problem and he said when they paid, the decryptor could not decrypt large files with several gigabytes. The small files like Word, Excel worked ok but they lost all of their large files. How can you guarantee that it will work?
2025-01-25T19:33:35.937803Z
We're not newbies at this. We don't have the problems your friends had.
2025-01-25T19:40:15.360764Z
We're risking our name here. DragonForce, we don't make mistakes like that.
2025-01-25T19:40:27.400121Z
Can you prove it? Can you send me a decryptor that can decrypt 1 large file to see if it will work?
2025-01-25T19:42:17.437685Z
If your friends did have such instances, you can ask what faction they belonged to. It certainly wasn't us (DragonForce). No, of course not. We wouldn't do that. Large files are often the most key and important. It's stupid to do a test decryption on that. You should understand that. You did a test decryption - it worked. That's the first point that shows we're not cheating. The second point is that you can pick files from a list of 2-3 random files that we can give you! That all proves that we're serious and not cheating.
2025-01-25T19:45:18.463878Z
I also know that you would say anything to get paid and it's hard for me to believe anything you say. I also lost my house and everything I own two weeks ago. I don't have a lot of money since I have to rebuild my life again. I will have to think about what part of my life I need to fix first and how much the stuff you stole is worth to me if anything. I will get back to you once I think it over.
2025-01-25T19:53:23.933808Z
It's not just about those files. It's about the company being perceived as untrustworthy and compromised. Think about it and come back. I'll see you later.
2025-01-25T19:55:04.465346Z
I will get back to you.
2025-01-25T19:55:49.139384Z
Pay the ransom and don't mess with us, otherwise we'll just publish the files. You still have time.
2025-01-25T19:56:27.594846Z