How Groove Gang is Shaking up the Ransomware-as-a-Service Market. For many years the world of Ransomware-as-a-Service was perceived as a somewhat hierarchical and structured organization. Ransomware developers would advertise their RaaS program on forum s and gracefully open up slots for affiliates to join their team to commit crime. But the emphasis has shifted in recent years to being able to penetrate and compromise a complete network using a variety of malicious and non-malicious tools.