After recently being talked about with the Kaseya hack, the Russian-speaking hacker group REvil seems to have completely disappeared.
Its entire infrastructure on the dark web is now unavailable.
His blog listing his misdeeds, his various sites used to negotiate and ransom payments is unresponsive.
Operation by the authorities or willful scuttling?
Hard to say.
In any case, one of the group's representatives would have been banned from one of the forums very popular with cybercriminals.
A precaution on the part of the latter to prevent the site from being compromised due to an operation carried out by the police to bring down the operators of the REVil ransomware.
This is in any case the hypothesis evoked by Bleeping Computer, but the reasons put forward to explain the disappearance of the group of cybercriminals are numerous.
It's only a good bye
It wouldn't be the first time that hackers have disappeared of their own accord overnight, permanently or not.
The disappearance of the ransomware infrastructure could also be a trick for hackers not to pay their associates.
The uncertainty surrounding the demise of the REvil hacker group remains.
It could be that we remain unanswered, unless the group rises from its ashes like a phoenix.
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