The BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware group is back in the headlines, following a $22 million attack on Change Healthcare, first reported in February 2024. The group’s eponymous ransomware was initially observed in November 2021, and by April 2022, the FBI reported that the group had infected more than 60 organizations.
Between mid-2022 and the end of 2023, BlackCat emerged as the second most prolific ransomware-as-a-service group, having perpetrated more than 1,000 successful attacks against government entities, defense contractors, critical manufacturing companies, healthcare providers, schools, and more, according to the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ). But U.S. law enforcement officials were about to catch up.
In December 2023, the DOJ announced that the FBI had infiltrated the group, seized several of its websites, and released a decryption tool to help organizations get their data back...read more!
