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As of: 01/26/2023 5:09 p.m
According to the authorities in Germany and the USA, they have smashed the global hacker network “Hive”. It was apparently responsible for over 1500 major cyber attacks on companies worldwide.
The public prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart, together with US judicial authorities, has broken up an international network of cybercriminals called “Hive”. “A large number of servers were confiscated, data and accounts of the network and its users were secured,” said the public prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart and the police headquarters in Reutlingen.
The hackers have attacked more than 1,500 companies since mid-2021, including 70 in Germany, the authorities said. Three of them were in Baden-Württemberg. The Criminal Investigation Directorate in Esslingen had tracked down the network during investigations into a company affected there.
$130 million ransom
Earlier it became known that the FBI blocked the site of the hackers “Hive Ransomware” on Thursday. Ransomware is malware that locks the computer or encrypts data in order to blackmail users. “Hive” is one of many cybercriminal groups that blackmail international companies by encrypting their data in exchange for massive cryptocurrency payments. According to the US authorities, the hackers were able to loot around $130 million in ransoms.