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Hunters International Ransomware Group Shuts Down - But Will It Regroup Under A New Guise?

Bitdefender, July 4,2025

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 "decided to close the Hunters International project" but is also offering free decryption tools to its previous victims - with no ransom payment required.

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