In a statement last week, the US Department of Justice claimed to have made progress against the significant ransomware organisation known as Hive.
Since last July, the FBI has been infiltrating Hive’s computer networks, and its disruption of the hackers’ operations has resulted in the cancellation of more than $130 million in ransom demands.
The FBI infiltrated the gang’s network as part of the operation and stole Hive’s decryption keys before providing them to the gang’s victims.
The notorious gang has been targeting victims all around the world for some time. Since 2021, it has targeted over 1,500 victims, collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom. Healthcare systems have frequently been the target of ransomware attacks.
“The Department of Justice’s disruption of the Hive ransomware group should speak as clearly to victims of cybercrime as it does to perpet
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