The global police operation enters the 8 -bass ransomware gang leak site
A group of international organizations responsible for the application of laws has seized the Dark of Ransomware 8Base Dark WEB site as part of a withdrawal operation.
“This hidden site and criminal content were seized by the Bavarian state criminal police office on behalf of the prosecutor’s office in Bamberg,” reads a message on the gang of the gang du Gang, that Techcrunch seen.
According to the seizure message, the police, Japan and the United States and the United Kingdom participated in the withdrawal operation.
Lucy Sneddon, spokesperson for the National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom, confirmed the legitimacy of the withdrawal message in an email at Techcrunch. The United Kingdom has played a “support role” in the operation, the British agency said.
Representatives of other law enforcement organizations involved in withdrawal did not immediately answer Techcrunch questions.
The Ransomware gang 8base is a financial motivation group observed for the first time in 2022. The group, to which security experts have linked The Ransomhouse extortion groupis known for employment Double exposure tacticsWhere criminals encrypt and then threaten to expose sensitive information if the victim does not pay a ransom request.
In 2023, the American government warned that The 8base gang has concentrated its “blind targeting” in several sectors Mainly in the United States, including health care. The gang also claimed a cyber attack on The United Nations Development Program Last year.
In a message on his dark canvas leak site before the withdrawal of this week, 8base described himself as “honest and simple slopes”. Like the prolific gang of clop ransomware, 8base claimed to target only organizations that have “neglected the privacy and the importance of the data of their employees and customers”.
8Base is known to use various strains of ransomware in his attacks, including Phobos. The US government last year secure extradition of an alleged Russian pirate who would have been a key administrator of the prolific operation of Phobos ransomware.
