Key Points - On October 6, 2021, the DOJ announced two new initiatives: the Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative and the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team. .
The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind the attack
The attack came despite President Joe Biden s threat of retaliation to Russian President Vladimir Putin if they continued
The massive scale of the attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday
John Hammond of the security firm Huntress Labs said the criminals targeted a software supplier called Kaseya
Kaseya earlier in the day had said in a press release that the potential attack had been limited to a small number of on-premise customers only