[Stanley]

Qilin Ransomware Adds "Call Lawyer" Feature to Pressure Victims for Larger Ransoms

The threat actors behind the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme are now offering legal counsel for affiliates to put more pressure on victims to pay up, as the cybercrime group intensifies its activity and tries to fill the void left by its rivals.
The new feature takes the form of a "Call Lawyer" feature on the affiliate panel, per Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason.
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https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/qilin-...awyer.html

[slager12]

Bad news not fake but bad

[Omniscient]

This is crazy. Go read that.

"The mere appearance of a lawyer in the chat can exert indirect pressure on the company and increase the ransom amount, as companies want to avoid legal proceedings."

So the lawyer represents the Ransomware. WOW!

[The Pact]

I don't know that there's any reason to think they'd be a legitimate lawyer. And I'm noticing that if I Google lawyer what comes up first on Google are more than one "sponsored" "Ask a Lawyer," services which I am sure are 100% scam. You can't just ring a number and talk immediately to a real lawyer. SCAM.

And no I'm not in trouble. A relative died and they had dementia, so what they told everyone who their lawyer with the will was turns out not to have been their lawyer or holding the will at all.