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Elizabeth Cookson

Senior Director of incident response at Coveware.

Known aliases

  • Lizzie Cookson

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

security3 publishers

The extortion layer your IR playbook has no page for: 'Ransom Busters' emails victims mid-incident

GuidePoint says the persona offering to delete stolen data for $20,000 to $60,000 is very likely a ransomware affiliate, which makes the rescue fee a second payment to the same attacker.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
Builder
Builder 23%
Operator
Operator 65%
Investor
Investor 12%

Reality

Evidence66
Adoption18
Hype gap+12
Incentives40
Confidence62