Ransomware gang Hunters International says it’s shutting down

The Ranswireware gang, known as the Hunters International, announced on its Dark Web page on Thursday that it was closed.

“After considering caution and in the light of the recent events we decided to close the Hunters International Project,” Hackers wrote in a post that it was clearly referring to the specific development. “This decision was not made lightly, and we acknowledge what its impact on the companies we have contacted.”

Hackers also say that they are providing “free decryption keys to all agencies affected by our ransom.” “

This gang writes, “Our goal is to ensure that you can recover your encrypted data,” this gang wrote, which asked the victims to get the decryption keys and to see on its official site to recover the encrypted files.

At the time of writing, there is no such information on the website.

Hunters International have demanded a number of victims, including its two years of existence, including A US Cancer Center And US martial service; The law enforcement agency, however Have been hacked has been denied By cybercrime gang.

Several Ransomware Gang The decryption keys for their victims in the past have released the keys, then each of them closed for various reasons. Some just stopped to return to new names, perhaps the researchers and law enforcement agencies attempt to distract and sometimes to go To avoid restrictionsThe Others decided to leave it after receiving adequate funding to retire.

In the case of Hunters International, it is still very early to say what to stop the inspiration of this gang, but till April there were signs that have been converted towards a rebuild and a group called World Leaks, according to Alan Lisker, threatened by the threat of a cybercopery firm.

“I think it’s more than ‘bonding’ with the old infrastructure,” Liska says, who has been tracking the Ranswear for years. “As long as the decryption keys are being released, they are still unlikely to get any money from the victims of a hunter who is still out, so they probably see it as a gesture that does not really spend any of them.”

The World Leaks Group uses a new ransomware software and has a new site hosted somewhere, but people behind it may be the same, Liska said.

Liska said that the gang may be dark that “using the same technical infrastructure makes you more risky in law enforcement for a long time,” refer to Hev, a ransom gang which Was seized and closed by FBI In 2023.

“Or, they got the wind that the law enforcers were closing and decided to move forward from them,” he said.