European police, FBI bust international cybercrime gang

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Working with various law enforcement partners, police in Duesseldorf said they were able to identify 11 individuals linked to a group that had been blackmailing large companies and institutions for year

German police said Monday that they have disrupted an international cybercrime gang which has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years, raking in millions of euros.

Among its most prominent victims was Duesseldorf University Hospital, whose computers were infected with a type of ransomware known as DoppelPaymer in 2020. A woman who needed urgent treatment died after she had to be taken to another city for treatment.

 

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