The U.S. Department of Justice has dismantled an international ransomware network responsible for extorting and attempting to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and around the world. The Hive ransomware ring has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from more than 1,500 victims in hospitals, schools, financial companies, and critical infrastructure in more than 80 countries around the world.

The leak site built through the dark web shows that the Hive ransomware gang has released the data they claim to have stolen from Tata Power, which would indicate that ransom negotiations with Tata Power have failed.

The ransomware gang, named after the Guy Ritchie-directed movie, targeted the most exclusive farm stores in the British Cotswolds and their celebrity customers.

REvil claims to have stolen a variety of different data from Midea, including its product lifecycle management (PLM) system - containing blueprints and firmware source code - as well as financial information intended for sale.

The ransomware group BlackCat is a hacking group with ties to Russia. However, it is not known who exactly is behind it. On the Internet, you can find various cyber attacks BlackCat has been involved in and where ransoms have been demanded.

The current LockBit ransomware gang, still unable to resist the DDoS attack on their dark web site, has temporarily placed a message on one of their Tor domains seeking BT seed upload points.

The harshest conclusion of HP Wolf Security's report is that cybercriminals are operating in an almost professional manner, delivering easy-to-launch, plug-and-play malware and ransomware attacks as software-as-a-service. This allows those with even the most basic skills to launch cyber attacks.

The new version improves the UI design of the ransom site, launches the organization's official blog site on the dark web, a document site showing evidence of the intrusion, a chat site to communicate with victims, and adds a Zcash cryptocurrency payment option.

By leveraging the operational security failures of threat actors and other techniques, Cisco Talos was able to identify TOR hidden services hosted on public IP addresses, some of which were previously unknown infrastructures associated with DarkAngels, Snatch, Quantum and Nokoyawa ransomware groups.

The city of Schlissheim, Germany, informed hundreds of citizens about the dark web data. About a month ago, unidentified individuals hacked into the city's IT systems, and these cybercriminals used malware ("ransomware") to encrypt the city's servers. They did not demand a ransom, but threatened to release the data on the dark web. After the deadline passed, their stolen internal documents were leaked on the Dark Web.