I hope this is a sign of things to come. Train robberies and privateering were common because the culprits were rarely caught. I feel ransomware has been so successful because it operated in an environment where you never get caught.

The solution is always the same, step up the enforcement.

Any real, as in flesh and blood, person(s) arrested? Otherwise this is only a small delay.

YAY! Some thoughts about the article. In my country and many others it is for sure already illegal to pay ransom. Would say it applies to the entire EU at least. Every company that paid should be prosecuted. I work for a company that payed ransom. Yes, it was illegal, and yes, the company is owned by "dudes"...

The solutions are multi-pronged. 1) Step up enforcement of current laws and regulations. (A law or regulation is only as effective as its enforcement.) 2) Do as much as possible to trace payments and force payment networks to co-operate with criminal investigations, preferably through multilateral treaties or agreements. 3) Thwart social engineering by training and promoting good online hygiene.

Is hacking the hackers even legal? Wouldn't it still be a crime.

TLDR: "We failed to arrest, or even identify anybody, Team US OPSEC FUCK YEAH!!!"

FBI, Cyber Command, Secret Service, Russian run Group-IB, DoD and spokesperson for the White House National Security Council seen in the background doing high fives and congratulating themselves on "Mission Accomplished".

Yep, REvils website is down :(

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There's a lot of evidence REvils was sent from the future to stop a coming cyber-war that wipes out much of humanity due to systematic unpatched issues across the world that multiple nation states collected and used at once wiping out supply chains killing billions.

It all fits, imagine if REvil's "Colonial Pipeline that led to widespread gas shortages" was in the hands of North Koreans or from a solar storm.

Which does beg the question who really is currently attacking REvil. It stands to reason future nation states also might send people back in time to keep things unpatched and they would already know Biden has Alzheimers.