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GandCrab ransomware operation says it’s shutting down

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Dissent

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Catalin Cimpanu reports:

The creators of the GandCrab ransomware announced yesterday they were shutting down their Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) operation, ZDNet has learned.

[…]

“We successfully cashed this money and legalized it in various spheres of white business both in real life and on the Internet,” the GandCrab crew bragged.

“We are leaving for a well-deserved retirement,” they said. “We have proved that by doing evil deeds, retribution does not come.”

Read more on ZDNet.

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