{"id":5119,"date":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/hunters-international-ransomware-group-shuts-down-but-will-it-regroup-under-a-new-guise\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T02:03:09","slug":"hunters-international-ransomware-group-shuts-down-but-will-it-regroup-under-a-new-guise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/05\/hunters-international-ransomware-group-shuts-down-but-will-it-regroup-under-a-new-guise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunters International ransomware group shuts down \u2013 but will it regroup under a new guise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Hunters International ransomware group shuts down \u2013 but will it regroup under a new guise?<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The notorious Hunters International ransomware-as-a-service operation has announced that it has shut down, in a message posted on its dark web leak site.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on its extortion site, the ransomware group says that it has not only &#8220;decided to close the Hunters International project&#8221; but is also offering free decryption tools to its previous victims &#8211; with no ransom payment required.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/hunters-international-ransomware-group-shuts-down-but-will-it-regroup-under-a-new-guise\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunters International ransomware group shuts down \u2013 but will it regroup under a new guise? The notorious Hunters International ransomware-as-a-service operation has announced that it has shut down, in a message posted on its dark web leak site. In a statement on its extortion site, the ransomware group says that it has not only &#8220;decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,54,155,1493,258,231],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-loss","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-hunters-international","category-malware","category-ransomware","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}