BlackSuit Ransomware Capabilities Undermined by Targeted Server Takedown

With the help of U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), as well as domestic and international law enforcement agencies, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations has dismantled the backbone of the BlackSuit ransomware group, a decisive blow taken against transnational cybercrime. 

As a result of the coordinated action taken against the gang, servers, domains, and other digital assets vital to the gang’s illicit activities were seized.
There is widespread evidence that BlackSuit is the successor to the notorious Royal ransomware. It has been implicated in numerous high-impact attacks on critical sectors such as healthcare and education, public safety organisations, energy infrastructure, and government agencies, which have threatened the availability of essential services and public safety. 

Currently, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is examining allegations that the BlackSuit ransomware group—the successor to the Royal gang—was responsible for compromising 450 organisations across the country and extorting $370 million in ransom payments before its federal authorities took action to take the group down. 

An official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed today that Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), in collaboration with U.S. and in

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