OP 28 January, 2023 - 07:51 AM
Quote:The FBI has successfully disrupted the activities of a notorious ransomware group called Hive, which had targeted over 1,500 victims in more than 80 countries worldwide, and prevented $130m worth of ransom campaigns. The FBI infiltrated the group's network for months before working with German and Netherlands officials to shut down the Hive servers and websites this week. The FBI claims that by covertly hacking into Hive servers, it was able to quietly snatch up over 300 decryption keys and pass them back to victims whose data was locked up by the group. Hive had been considered a top-five ransomware threat by the FBI and had received over $100m in ransom payments from its victims since June 2021.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/27/23574...rk-servers