The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that it had secretly hacked and disrupted a prolific ransomware gang called Hive, a manoeuvre that allowed .
The US Justice Department announced on Jan 26 it had shut down the Hive ransomware operation, which had extorted more than US$100mil (RM422.95mil) from more than 1,500 victims worldwide.
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