News report

# 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

**Used in entries:** 1

## Bibliographic record

**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](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.

How this source is used

Cited 1 time across 1 record type.

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## Cited by

### Later activity

1 citation

Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[ALPHV/BlackCat infrastructure reassertion](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/alphv-blackcat-disruption)

Same operators, ALPHV/BlackCat disruption

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