New ransomware based on Hive source code
Hunters International ransomware shares many similarities with Hive ransomware yet it is not a rebrand as threat actors said. After the FBI defaced the Hive ransomware leak site Hunters International sold older versions of their source code written in C and Golang as well as their websiteAccording to provided sources they took Hive encryption logic and fixed several issues that sometimes prevented file decryption. Similar to Hive Hunters International works as ransomware as a service (RaaS) and besides encryption it also exfiltrates victim data.