Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments

By Lawrence Abrams · BleepingComputer · Wednesday, 7 October 2026 at 23:04 (3h ago) · Original article ↗

The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to use proprietary technology to recover encrypted data. [...]

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