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BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption
Krebs on Security ^ | 19 December 2023 | Krebs staff

Posted on 12/22/2023 10:16:08 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang’s darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems. Meanwhile, BlackCat responded by briefly “unseizing” its darknet site with a message promising 90 percent commissions for affiliates who continue to work with the crime group, and open season on everything from hospitals to nuclear power plants.

(Excerpt) Read more at krebsonsecurity.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: attacks; malware; ransomware; russia
And Moscow has the gall to claim that the West is attacking THEM.
1 posted on 12/22/2023 10:16:08 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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2 posted on 12/22/2023 10:20:39 AM PST by algore
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

This will be the source of our next big false flag, at the click of a mouse button. But important perspective... Are they telling the truth? Is it really Russia or is it our own assets doing it?

Would they lie and blame it on Russia? If it ends up giving government more control over the people such as martial law then you bet they would.


3 posted on 12/22/2023 10:23:09 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

The FBI versus Russian Hackers. Sort of like the Gambinos versus Colombos.


4 posted on 12/22/2023 10:29:49 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: algore

Wasn’t the last one-the DoD leak that turned out to be the Russians in the form of an American kid named Texeira trying to impress his friends?

This mistrust that they’ve sowed is insane-the only missing ingrient fr violence is hunger.


5 posted on 12/22/2023 10:31:24 AM PST by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: Openurmind

Be vigilant...


6 posted on 12/22/2023 10:33:55 AM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: Openurmind

NSA can fake any country’s data source.

This could be FBI vs NSA—and FBI might not even know it.


7 posted on 12/22/2023 10:34:31 AM PST by cgbg ("Our democracy" = Obey or get canceled.)
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Absolutely... Unfortunately we can’t trust them anymore than we can Russia.


8 posted on 12/22/2023 10:35:56 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: EastTexasTraveler

“The FBI versus Russian Hackers. Sort of like the Gambinos versus Colombos.”

Excellent comparison.


9 posted on 12/22/2023 11:09:00 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: EastTexasTraveler

🤣


10 posted on 12/22/2023 11:22:13 AM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Openurmind
Unfortunately we can’t trust them anymore than we can Russia.

Who do I trust more? Russia? Or the disciples of deceit in D.C.?


11 posted on 12/22/2023 1:31:40 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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