MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data

October 8, 2026 · 7:41 am 1 sources

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• MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data
  The Hacker News · October 8, 2026 07:41
  The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data. Zohar Pinhasi (aka…