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FBI claims to have dismantled AlphV/Blackcat ransomware operation, but the group denies it

Security Affairs, December 19, 2023. ALPHV/BlackCat's denial of the December 2023 FBI seizure and its claim to have regained control of its leak site; the article's publication date of 19 December 2023 is the only timing anchor it offers..

Source type
News report
Published
December 19, 2023
Research grade
S2
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Publisher
Security Affairs
Published
December 19, 2023
Source type
News report
Research grade
Source grade S2
Language
English
Official record
Not an official publication
Address
https://securityaffairs.com/156124/breaking-news/alphv-blackcat-ransomware-group-seizure.html
What it supports
ALPHV/BlackCat's denial of the December 2023 FBI seizure and its claim to have regained control of its leak site; the article's publication date of 19 December 2023 is the only timing anchor it offers.
Dataset id
src_securityaffairs_alphv_seizure_denial_2023

Research notes

  • By Pierluigi Paganini.
  • The article carries no timestamp for the 'unseizing' itself, so it bounds the event to on or before 2023-12-19 rather than fixing a date.

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Cited 1 time across 1 record type.

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