Security News > 2023 > June > US govt offers $10 million bounty for info on Clop ransomware
The U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice program announced up to a $10 million bounty yesterday for information linking the Clop ransomware attacks to a foreign government.
"Do you have info linking CL0P Ransomware Gang or any other malicious cyber actors targeting U.S. critical infrastructure to a foreign government? Send us a tip. You could be eligible for a reward," tweeted the Rewards for Justice Twitter account.
Rewards of Justice is a U.S. Department of State program that offers monetary rewards for information on threat actors and attacks impacting the national security of the USA. Initially launched to gather information on terrorists targeting U.S. interests, the program has since expanded to include information on cyber criminals, such as the Conti ransomware operation, Russian Sandworm hackers, REvil ransomware, and the Evil Corp hacking group.
This new RFJ bounty comes after the Clop ransomware conducted data-theft attacks on companies worldwide using a zero-day vulnerability in the MOVEit Transfer security file transfer platform.
The attacks started on May 27th, over the long U.S. Memorial Day holiday, with the Clop ransomware gang claiming to have stolen data from hundreds of companies.
"We got a lot of emails about government data, we don't have any government data and anything directly residing on exposed and bad protected not encrypted file transfer we still do the polite thing and delete all," reads a message on the Clop data leak site.
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