The temptation to “take the money and run” was apparently too much for the leadership of the AlphV ransomware crime ring. You may have heard of this group as being behind the breach of Change Healthcare, and causing payment problems for nearly the entire US Healthcare system. And that hack seems to be key to what’s happened this week.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/03/08/this-week-in-security-blame-the-feds-emergency-patches-and-the-dma/