A Russian-based hacker group responsible for a huge ransomware assault went offline, prompting rumors whether it was an action taken by the government. The “dark web” page of the group known as REvil vanished some two weeks after an assault which affected networks of hundreds of businesses globally and led Continue Reading
On Friday, French radio station France Inter reported that members of the Egregor ransomware cartel have been arrested this week in Ukraine. The arrests, which have not been formally announced, occurred due to a joint inquiry between French and Ukrainian police. Sources in the threat intel community have established the Continue Reading
On Sunday, the cybercrime group behind the FonixCrypter ransomware announced on Twitter that they are set to shut down their operation. The FonixCrypter gang, as a gesture of goodwill towards past victims, has also released a package containing a decryption tool, how-to instructions, and the ransomware’s master decryption key. These Continue Reading
This week, law enforcement agencies from Bulgaria and the US have disrupted the infrastructure of NetWalker, one of 2020’s most active ransomware cliques. Bulgarian officials seized a server used to host dark web portals for the NetWalker ring, with officials in the US indicting a Canadian national who ostensibly made Continue Reading
After hackers penetrated its internal network and encrypted the company’s files, helicopter maker Kopter became the victim of a ransomware attack. The ransomware gang published some of the company’s files on the internet on Friday after Kopter declined to engage with the hackers. As part of their tactics, many ransomware Continue Reading
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