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As companies beef up cybersecurity, one hacker group reportedly let go of 45 telemarketers tricking people into inviting ransomware.

Such efforts have helped the DOJ investigate and extradite alleged hackers to the US, the agency said. For instance,

last year that they brought in a man who had been detained in Poland to appear before a federal court. The agency said he had used the Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware against companies including software firm Kaseya. hack that affected a 5,000 mile gas pipeline serving the East Coast of the US in 2021. , the department said it had been looking into more than"100 variants of ransomware" and groups it"suspected of causing over $1 billion in losses to victims.

Countries are generally also stepping up their oversight of ransomware attacks and trying to improve privacy regulations, according to the research and consulting firm Gartner.on its anticipated cybersecurity trends in the next year. In 2021, that figure was smaller than 1%, according to the report.

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