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Cybersecurity Agents Accused of Working With Notorious Blackcat Hackers to Extort Firms

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In this photo illustration, a hacker types on a computer keyboard on May 13, 2025. Oleksii Pydsosonnii/The Epoch TimesThree rogue cybersecurity professionals ran a covert ransomware operation aimed at extorting companies across the United States by encrypting their networks, prosecutors said.They each collaborated with notorious hacking gang ALPHV, also known as Blackcat, in an attempt to extort their owners out of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency, prosecutors alleged in an indictment filed last month in a federal court in Miami, Florida.

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