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Cybersecurity Agents Accused of Working With Notorious Blackcat Hackers to Extort Firms

By Rachel Roberts Three rogue cybersecurity professionals ran a covert ransomware operation aimed at extorting companies across the United States by encrypting their networks, prosecutors said. They each collaborated with notorious hacking gang ALPHV, also known as Blackcat, in an attempt to extort their owners out of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency, prosecutors alleged […]