The Department of Justice, FBI and international law enforcement partners mounted a cyber crackdown against the Russia-linked ransomware gang the Hive, seizing its website and dismantling much of its digital infrastructure.
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The Department of Justice, FBI and international law enforcement partners mounted a major cyber crackdown against the notorious Russia-linkedgang the Hive on Thursday, seizing its website and dismantling much of its digital infrastructure. "The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized this site as part of a coordinated law enforcement action taken against Hive Ransomware," a note on Hive's leak site, shown in English and Russian languages, said Thursday.
Hive ransomware actors have "victimized" over 1,300 companies worldwide, and are believed to have received approximately $100 million in ransom payments, according to information previously released by the FBI, authorities said.
The Hive gang is known to threaten companies they target by warning they'll leak their information on the internet, according to bulletins released by law enforcement. Their hackers typically leave a ransom note with instructions on the network.In one instance last month, Hive hackers allegedly took the data of 270,000 people from the largest medical complex in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
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