{
  "id": 589993,
  "title": "DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/11/deadlock-ransomware-uses-polygon-smart-contracts-to-make-extortion",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-11T16:35:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/deadlock-ransomware-uses-polygon-smart.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience. \"Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that store and deliver resources used throughout the extortion process,\" the Microsoft Threat",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}