FBI Director Christopher Wray faced questions during a Senate hearing Tuesday concerning a report that the bureau withheld a decryption key that agents obtained from the ransomware gang that targeted software firm Kaseya for almost three weeks. Wray declined to say which other government agencies had been involved in the decision to withhold the key while the investigation continued. The FBI held onto the key because it planned to target REvil’s infrastructure and did not want to tip off the cybercriminals, the Washington Post reported. Security researchers now believe that REvil, aka Sodinokibi, has returned.”]
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