BlackCat eventually managed to bring its site back online, blaming the outage on equipment malfunctions.īut earlier today, the BlackCat website was replaced with an FBI seizure notice, while federal prosecutors in Florida released a search warrant explaining how FBI agents were able to gain access to and disrupt the group’s operations.Ī statement on the operation from the U.S. Whispers of a possible law enforcement action against BlackCat came in the first week of December, after the ransomware group’s darknet site went offline and remained unavailable for roughly five days.
A slightly modified version of the FBI seizure notice on the BlackCat darknet site (Santa caps added).
