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MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data
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MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data


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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data.Zohar Pinhasi (aka Zack Silver and Zack Green) has been charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of wire

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