An international group of law enforcement groups has taken down the dark web leak site of the notorious ransomware gang known as ALPHV, or BlackCat.
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation seized this site as part of a coordinated law enforcement action taken against ALPHV Blackcat Ransomware,” a message currently reads on the gang’s dark web leak site.
According to the press release, law enforcement agencies from the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Spain, and Australia were also involved in the takedown operation.
The US Department of Justice later confirmed the disruption, stating that the global takedown effort, led by the FBI, allowed US officials to obtain visibility into the ransomware group’s computer and seize “several websites” that ALPHV operated.
Additionally, the FBI released a decryption tool that has already assisted over 500 victims of the ALPHV ransomware patch their systems. (The numbe
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