Security News > 2023 > August > Crimeware server used by NetWalker ransomware seized and shut down
In the DOJ's blunt words, "Grabowski remains a fugitive."
As you probably know, ransomware criminals typically use anonymous darkweb hosts for contact purposes when they're "Negotiating" their blackmail payoffs.
Those darkweb servers are usually hosted in the largely anonymous Tor network, with server names ending in.
In the build-up to an attack and even while the attack is under way, ransomware crooks often need innocently-styled URLs on the regular "Brightweb".
Attackers often set up legitimate-looking sites as download repositories for their malware and hacking tools, as jumping-off points for mounting attacks, and as upload servers to which they can exfiltrate stolen files without arousing immediate suspicion.
Approximately 50 NetWalker ransomware attacks on victims located all over the world, including in the Middle District of Florida.