GLOBAL RaaS: Dissecting a Modern Ransomware Franchise by Lucie Cardiet

**Executive summary:** GLOBAL is presented as an industrialized ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform that equips affiliates to rapidly build multi-platform ransomware, perform one-click lateral propagation and remote disk encryption, erase forensic evidence, disable protections, and automate extortion (including AI-driven negotiation and affiliate leak sites), meaning defenders relying solely on EDR, SIEM, or backups may fail to detect or recover from attacks without broader identity, network, cloud, and endpoint visibility.