July 13, 2021- 11:10 a.m.
The Russia-linked ransomware gang REvil has seemingly vanished from the dark web, where it maintains several pages documenting its activities including one called the “happy blog.” It’s not yet known if the sites were down temporarily or if the group — or law enforcement — took its websites offline.
Their extortion page is gone, all of their payment portals are offline, as is their chat function.” Liska said the websites went offline around 1 a.m. Eastern time.
REvil, which is suspected by cybersecurity firms and the U.S. government of operating out of Russia, was accused of being behind an attack on giant meat supplier JBS SA, which eventually paid the group $11 million ransom. More recently, the group embarked on a wide-scale ransomware attack, which affected hundreds of companies globally.
