FBI held back ransomware decryption key from businesses | Biden sanctions cryptocurrency exchange over ransomware attacks | Hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind far-right websites
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Follow us on Twitter. The Daily Cyber Digest focuses on the topics we work on, including cyber, critical technologies & strategic issues like foreign interference. The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a major ransomware attack this summer, even though the bureau had secretly obtained the digital key needed to do so, according to several current and former U.S. officials. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. Deploying it immediately could have helped the victims, including schools and hospitals, avoid what analysts estimate was millions of dollars in recovery costs.
FBI held back ransomware decryption key from businesses | Biden sanctions cryptocurrency exchange over ransomware attacks | Hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind far-right websites
FBI held back ransomware decryption key from…
FBI held back ransomware decryption key from businesses | Biden sanctions cryptocurrency exchange over ransomware attacks | Hack reveals embarrassing details of who’s behind far-right websites
Follow us on Twitter. The Daily Cyber Digest focuses on the topics we work on, including cyber, critical technologies & strategic issues like foreign interference. The FBI refrained for almost three weeks from helping to unlock the computers of hundreds of businesses and institutions hobbled by a major ransomware attack this summer, even though the bureau had secretly obtained the digital key needed to do so, according to several current and former U.S. officials. The key was obtained through access to the servers of the Russia-based criminal gang behind the July attack. Deploying it immediately could have helped the victims, including schools and hospitals, avoid what analysts estimate was millions of dollars in recovery costs.