Ransomware Gang Hunters International says it closes

The Ransomware gang known as Hunters International announced on the dark web page on Thursday that it closes.

“After careful consideration and in the light of recent developments, we decided to close the Hunters International project,” the infiltrators wrote in a publication, without clarifying the specific developments that were referring to. “This decision has not been taken lightly, and we realize the impact it causes on the organizations that we interacted with.”

The infiltrators also said that they are offering free trickery keys “to all companies that were affected by our ransom.”

“Our goal is to make sure that you can recover your encrypted data without a ransom payment burden,” wrote the gang, who asked the victims to visit its official website to obtain the keys to decomposing and recovering encrypted files.

At the time of writing this report, there is no such information on the site.

Hunters International claimed many victims in two years of his presence, including Cancer Center in the United States and American Field Marshal Service; However, the law enforcement agency He denied that it was hacked By the electronic crime gang.

numerous ransom Gangs In the past, the keys to decoding their victims, then closed them, each of them for various reasons. Some people only close to return under a new name, perhaps in an attempt to confuse researchers and law enforcement agencies and sometimes Escape from penalties. Others decided to call it after getting enough money to retire.

In the case of Hunters International, it is still too early to know what the gang’s motives are to close, but there were signs of April’s return that indicate the brand rename and move to a group called World Leaks, according to Allan Liska, an intelligent threat analyst at Cybersecrance FIRM.

“I think this is more than” pieces of relationships “with ancient infrastructure,” said Lesca, who was tracking Ransomorins for years. “With regard to the launch of the decoding keys, at this point, they are unlikely to earn any money from the victims of any fishermen who are still there, so they may see it as a gesture that does not really cost them anything.”

Lesca said the World Leaks Group collection uses a new program for Ransomware and has a new site hosting it elsewhere, but the people behind it may be himself.

Liska said that the cause of the gang’s darkness may be “using the same technical infrastructure for a very long time that makes you more likely to enforce the law,” referring to HIVE, ransom gang It was seized and closed by the FBI In 2023.

He said: “Or they arrived at the wind in which the law enforcement was closed and decided to move forward.”