back to article Uncle Sam sweetens the pot with $15M bounty on Hive ransomware gang members

The US government has placed an extra $5 million bounty on Hive ransomware gang members – its second such reward in a year. And it also comes a little over 11 months since the FBI said it had shut down the criminal organization's network. On Thursday, the State Department reaffirmed it will pay up to $10 million for …

  1. David 164

    So the FBI dismantle the Hive without finding the Queens first. An no doubt the Queens have already or will no doubt in the future build a new hive for themselves.

  2. Herby

    Obvious?

    North Korea?

    Good luck with that. They are making more $$$ in Ransomware that the reward.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    to bad they didn't ID them during takedown

    Then they could post names and photos, make it dead or alive, and let the human hunt begin. but noooo, they want to arrest them. The rest of us want to see them die, very slowly.

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