Lindsay Kaye

Lindsay is Director of Operational Outcomes in Insikt Group, Recorded Future’s threat intelligence team. Primarily, Lindsay’s focus is malware analysis and supporting actionable intelligence by writing detection rules, such as YARA and Sigma, for clients to use in their own organizations.
Recent posts by Lindsay Kaye

Mobile phones are certainly ubiquitous—85% of Americans currently own a smartphone, and in 2020, 3.5 billion people owned a smartphone worldwide. With so many devices out there, it seems like mobile would be an excellent target for ransomware threat actors. However, we don’t hear a lot about devastating ransomware attacks targeting smartphone operating systems, like […]

Ransomware attacks have continued to plague organizations over the past few years, especially with the move to big game hunting at the end of 2019, and the debut of “double extortion” in 2020. Initially, threat actors primarily targeted Windows-based environments, but have more recently expanded capabilities to include Linux-based systems. In 2021, well-known groups including […]