Breaking: FBI seizes website of $100M ransomware syndicate

The FBI has seized a website that a notorious ransomware gang, which has extorted more than $100 million from victim organizations, has used to shame its victims, according to a posting on the website.

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The dark-web website of the so-called Hive ransomware group displayed a message Thursday that it had been taken over “as part of a coordinated law enforcement action” against the group by the FBI, Secret Service and numerous European government agencies.

[Kudos to the FBI. Maybe if it stuck to real crimes, it might have more successes and fewer political embarrassments. — Ed]

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