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FBI Withheld Kaseya Ransomware Key

By counter-hacking REvil, perpetrators of the widespread Kaseya ransomware attack on the 4th of July, the FBI reportedly obtained decryption keys that might have been used by the victims to recover, but withheld them for three weeks, to avoid tipping off the hackers that a counter-attack was in the works.

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