US government body paid $1M to hackers who never locked a single file
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A US government entity paid about $1m to the Kairos extortion group to keep stolen files private, according to a Ransom-ISAC case study based on a leaked negotiation chat and blockchain analysis. The clues point to Union County, Ohio, though neither party has confirmed it. The case illustrates how much of today’s “ransomware” involves no encryption at all.
A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis draws on a leaked negotiation chat and the blockchain trail the payment left behind.
The group behind the deal calls itself Kairos, but it may not be a ransomware gang in any traditional sense. Krishnan reportedly found no encryptor, no locker, and no demand for a decryption key, just stolen files and a price for keeping them private.
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