I’m now up on Cybernews, and this is something I can hopefully sink my teeth in to. Another 10 million dollars is out to someone who can turn in anyone anywhere around the world who is involved in the gang.
We know that Hive has been one of the most distructive gangs out there, but they aren’t the only ones. We know that Black Basta is another one, and maybe they’ll be next.
Here are the first several paragraphs.
The US State Department has put forth a $10M reward for information leading to the final takedown of the slippery Hive ransomware gang.
A department spokesperson announced Thursday the agency would fork over up to $10 million to the person who can provide information that will help identify or locate any individual (or individuals) holding key leadership positions in the criminal group.
But there’s more, the State Department said they will also offer up another $5 million to anyone with information that leads to the arrest and/or conviction of a Hive gang member or affiliate.
“Any individual, in any country,” the State department said.
Here’s some about Hive.
“Hive ransomware attacks have caused major disruptions for more than 1,500 victims in over 80 countries around the world,” according to the agency.
About the hospital situation:
“In one case, a hospital attacked by Hive ransomware had to resort to analog methods to treat existing patients and was unable to accept new patients immediately following the attack,” the reward bulletin said.
There’s a lot more The article is titled US offers $15M reward to end HIVE ransom gang for good so hopefully people will choose to read it if they’re interested.
Who knows, you might just win that money and if you do, congratulations and keep the money. While I do want to have donations, anyone who wins this money would be deservant of it because of the fact that you just did the security field as a whole a favor by dismantling gangs and causing them havoc. I say go for it!