FBI tracking more than 100 active ransomware groups

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FBI tracking more than 100 active ransomware groups
July 27, 2021
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/fbi-tracking-100-active-ransomware-groups-rcna1524

The FBI is tracking more than 100 active ransomware groups, an agency official said Tuesday.

The figure, given by Bryan Vorndran, assistant director of the agency's cyber division, during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ransomware, highlights the sizable problem that the United States faces in trying to mitigate the effects of ransomware gangs that attack American businesses, schools and other organizations.
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Some ransomware gangs have gone quiet in recent months after conducting a major attack that caught worldwide attention.
Those disappearances mean little compared to how vast the ransomware underworld is, said Brett Callow, an analyst at the cybersecurity firm Emsisoft.

"Seemingly new groups pop up all the time," he said. "In some cases, they’re affiliates of other operations. In some, they're rebrands."
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Ransomware gangs are often identified by the names that the software's authors give them. But membership gets muddy for law enforcement purposes, as a hacker who rents a famous type of ransomware for a particular attack might not have any kind of prior affiliation with the malware's designers.

Mapping out a comprehensive look at a given ransomware operation is particularly difficult, Vorndran said, because the hackers behind them are often good at hiding their tracks.
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