Kaseya refused to pay the ransom $70 million in BTC for hackers REvil – Bits Media

Kaseya Receives Decryption Key to Access Systems, attacked by hackers REvil, and shared it with clients. Kaseya claims, that the ransom did not pay to the hackers.

In early July, the KASEYA software supplier suffered from the Revil hackers attack. The Mrower Program paralyzed the networks at least 200 American companies. The amount of ransom for the decoding of data was about $70 million in BTC.

At the end of last week, Kaseya said, that I got the decoder key to unlock systems. However, the company refused to report how she succeeded and only stated, that I received it from the "trusted third party". After that, the media suggested, that Kaseya paid a ransom, But the company denies this information.

“We confirm, that Kaseya did not pay a ransom - directly or indirectly through the third side - for receiving a decoder ", - says in the statement on the company's website. “Although each company must make its own decision about that, whether to pay a ransom, After consulting with experts, Kaseya decided not to negotiate with criminals, who made this attack, And we did not depart from this obligation ".

After this statement, some industry participants suggested, that the company received the key through government channels. Recall, what sites in darkn, on which statements were published on behalf of Revil hackers, Stopped work 13 july.

According to Ransomwhere, Since the beginning of the year, hackers, Expanding programs-robbers, earned on ransom $33 million in BTC. Last year was a record for the amount of payments to hackers, using ransomware. but, According to the analytical company Chainalysis, 2021 the year may even surpass the indicators 2020 of the year.