{"id":1194768,"date":"2023-10-20T19:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194768"},"modified":"2023-10-20T19:09:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T23:09:07","slug":"feel-good-story-of-the-week-2-ransomware-gangs-meet-their-demise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1194768","title":{"rendered":"Feel-good story of the week: 2 ransomware gangs meet their demise"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From the warm-and-fuzzy files comes this feel-good Friday post, chronicling this week\u2019s takedown of two hated ransomware groups. One vanished on Tuesday, allegedly after being hacked by a group claiming allegiance to Ukraine. The other was taken out a day later thanks to an international police dragnet.<\/p>\n

The first group, calling itself Trigona, saw the content on its dark web victim naming-and-shaming site pulled down and replaced with a banner proclaiming: \u201cTrigona is gone! The servers of Trigona ransomware gang has been infiltrated and wiped out.\u201d An outfit calling itself Ukrainian Cyber Alliance took credit and included the tagline: \u201cdisrupting Russian criminal enterprises (both public and private) since 2014.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Poor operational security<\/h2>\n

A social media post<\/a> from a user claiming to be a Ukrainian Cyber Alliance press secretary said his group targeted ransomware groups partly because they consider themselves out of reach of Western law enforcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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