“What’s the plan for the victims?” asked Kurtis Minder, the chief executive of GroupSense, a digital risk protection company that was negotiating with the extortionists on behalf of a law firm whose data was locked up. Biden has called a critical national security threat - it left some of the group’s targets in the lurch, unable to pay the ransom to get their data back and get their businesses running again. While the disappearance of the hackers’ online presence was celebrated by many who see ransomware as a new scourge - one Mr. So did the infrastructure for making payments. Internet security groups said the custom-made sites - think of them as virtual conference rooms - where victims negotiated with REvil over how much ransom they would pay to get their data unlocked also disappeared. Gone was the publicly available “happy blog” the group maintained, listing some of its victims and the group’s earnings from its digital extortion schemes. Eastern time on Tuesday, when the group’s sites on the dark web suddenly disappeared. Putin did not, the president simply said, “Yes.”īut that is only one possible explanation for what happened around 1 a.m. Biden said that “we expect them to act,” and when asked by a reporter later if he would take down the group’s servers if Mr. Biden’s ultimatum in a phone call on Friday to the Russian president. Putin met in Geneva last month, REvil took credit for a hack that affected thousands of businesses around the world over the July 4 holiday. intelligence agencies as responsible for the attack on one of America’s largest beef producers, JBS. The group, called REvil, short for “Ransomware evil,” has been identified by U.S. Putin of Russia shut down ransomware groups attacking American targets, the most aggressive of the groups suddenly went off-line early Tuesday. Just days after President Biden demanded that President Vladimir V.

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