The United States Department of Justice announced that FBI employees eliminated the Hive ransomware group. announced.
United States Department of Justicewhich has afflicted 1,500 companies / institutions / individuals in more than 80 countries within the scope of the operation carried out by the employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or simply the FBI. Hive announces that it has cracked the ransomware group. Here’s an interesting piece of information that we haven’t heard before. As transmitted FBI computer experts saved $130 million by hacking hackers. So how did this happen? Hive, directly “ransomware” It was a working group. Ransomware or its Turkish equivalent ransomware or ransom virus, encrypts files on infected computers and centers on demanding a ransom over crypto money to give the password. If this is not paid, all files on the computer become unusable. Here, computer experts who took a step in this regard, entered Hive’s servers silently and took the passwords used to take the ransom from there. US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco “Simply put, we hacked hackers using legal means” said.
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From Hive servers Retrieves over 300 decryption keys and the FBI, which sends them to victims whose computers have been locked by the group, this saved a $130 million ransom (Most people were paying because their data was so important). Before the Federal Bureau of Investigation worked with German and Dutch authorities to shut down Hive servers and websites announced months ago that the group’s network had been hacked. This was a really smart step. As far as we learned with the statement made, Hive has been one of its victims since June 2021. received at least over $100 million in ransom payments. As we said above, these payments were made over cryptocurrencies in order not to be tracked.