Authorities seize dark web domains, charge a Canadian, and seize $454,000 in cryptocurrency.
Law enforcement agencies from Bulgaria and the US have disrupted this week the infrastructure of NetWalker, one of 2020’s most active ransomware gangs. Bulgarian officials seized a server used to host dark web portals for the NetWalker gang, while officials in the US indicted a Canadian national who allegedly made at least $27.6 million from infecting companies with the NetWalker ransomware. The seized servers were used to host pages where victims of NetWalker attacks were redirected to communicate with the attackers and negotiate ransom demands. The same server also hosted a blog section where the NetWalker gang would leak data they stole from hacked companies, and which refused to pay the ransom demand — as a form of revenge and public shaming.
