{"id":88209,"date":"2023-12-13T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T13:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=88209"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T13:33:57","slug":"alleged-hive-ransomware-operator-arrested-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/alleged-hive-ransomware-operator-arrested-in-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Hive ransomware operator arrested in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 5 December in Paris, a 40-year-old Russian national was arrested, reportedly the operator of Hive ransomware. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lefigaro.fr\/international\/un-banquier-occulte-russe-du-reseau-de-rancongiciel-hive-interpelle-a-paris-20231212\">Local media<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Cybercrime Unit, the suspect extorted cryptocurrency from victims of his cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian lived in Cyprus; \u20ac570,000 in undisclosed cryptocurrencies were seized from his home, which &#8216;corresponds to working capital&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to using the malware themselves, Hive developers provided its open-source code to external cybercriminals, taking a share of the ransom.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement traced the financial flows from victims to the extortionists and found hacker-linked wallets.<\/p>\n<p>In France alone, Hive victims numbered about 60 companies. Two of the attackers&#8217; organizers are now at large.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, FBI agents, together with authorities in Germany and the Netherlands, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/dangerous-gta-online-bug-yandex-source-code-leak-and-other-cybersecurity-developments\">\u043b\u0438\u043a\u0432\u0438\u0434\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u0438\u043d\u0444\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0443\u043a\u0442\u0443\u0440\u0443<\/a> Hive&#8217;s ransomware and gained control over all of the group&#8217;s Tor sites.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agency&#8217;s estimates, hackers breached more than 1,500 companies in 80 countries and, through extortion, obtained from victims <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/google-to-pay-391-5-million-for-user-tracking-arrest-of-the-suspected-zeus-leader-and-other-cybersecurity-news\">\u043e\u043a\u043e\u043b\u043e $100 \u043c\u043b\u043d<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 5 December in Paris, a 40-year-old Russian national was arrested, reportedly the operator of Hive ransomware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,134],"class_list":["post-88209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cybercrime","tag-france"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"22","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88211,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88209\/revisions\/88211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}