The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has requested a briefing to understand the rationale behind the FBI’s decision to delay providing the victims of the Kaseya REvil ransomware with a universal decryption key for three weeks. FBI Director Christopher A. Wray testified before Congress that the federal law enforcement agency withheld the decryption for almost three weeks because it planned an operation to disrupt the Russian REvil gang without tipping them off. However, before the FBI could execute its takedown plan, REvil shut down operations, took down their infrastructure in mid-July, and disappeared after its leak sites also went offline overnight.”]