Security News > 2022 > November > FBI: Hive ransomware extorted $100M from over 1,300 victims

The Federal Bureau of Investigation said today that the notorious Hive ransomware gang has successfully extorted roughly $100 million from over a thousand companies since June 2021.

To add insult to injury, the FBI says that the Hive gang will deploy additional ransomware payloads on the networks of victims who refuse to pay the ransom.

"As of November 2022, Hive ransomware actors have victimized over 1,300 companies worldwide, receiving approximately US$100 million in ransom payments, according to FBI information," the FBI revealed.

"Hive actors have been known to reinfect-with either Hive ransomware or another ransomware variant-the networks of victim organizations who have restored their network without making a ransom payment."

Today's advisory was issued to share Hive indicators of compromise and tactics, techniques, and procedures discovered by the FBI while investigating Hive ransomware attacks.

While submissions to the ID Ransomware platform don't include all Hive ransomware attacks, victims have submitted more than 850 samples since the start of the year, many of them pushed following a huge spike of activity between late March and mid-April.

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