Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiators Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

U.S. federal investigators found that executives at two ransomware negotiation firms maintained unusually close ties to the ShinyHunters group, with one helping run the shinywire.com extortion site. ShinyHunters has extorted over $70 million this year and breached the FBI jobs website fbijobs.gov.

• ShinyHunters extorted more than $70 million from victims this year
• Shinywire.com ran from May 3 to October 16 and listed nearly 100 hacked organizations
• Canadian executive Edward Dubrovsky was arrested October 9 in the ShinyHunters probe
• Negotiators often knew about new victims before the victims did