The US government has reportedly successfully raided the REvil hacker syndicate, which is behind various disturbing ransomware attacks.
Reported by Reuters, Monday (10/25/2021) in a joint operation between several US federal agencies such as the FBI, Secret Service, Cyber Command, and various agencies from several countries, the hacker syndicate network was successfully hacked and killed.
Including REvil's blog that was stored on the dark web, it was successfully turned off. The blog was previously used by REvil to share various information they stole from their victims.
Reports of the offline REvil site actually surfaced earlier this week. As written by Techcrunch, which said the REvil site on Tor had been inaccessible since last Monday.
At that time, there was a post that allegedly came from one of the leaders of REvil, who said their server was hacked. However, it was not clear at that time who did it.
But later Reuters sources stated that the REvil site was hacked in a joint operation by several US government federal agencies. During the operation a number of other ransomware hacker sites were also raided.
REvil is a ransomware carrier suspected of being linked to Apple data leaks, attacks on enterprise software companies, and a number of other major cyberattacks.
They are also called one of the ransomware distribution syndicates that received the most ransoms.
The increasing number of cases of ransomware that makes the US government strive to overcome it. The reason is that the ransom paid to open the ransomware is getting more and more expensive, because reportedly there is a company that paid a ransom of USD 40 million for the ransomware.
Some of the steps taken by the US government include making it difficult to 'monetize' hacked results, and there is also a special team formed to investigate crimes at cryptocurrency exchanges, as most ransomware ransoms are paid in cryptocurrencies.