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#7 The Hacker News general July 04, 2026 at 12:47 UTC

U.S. Government Entity Paid Kairos $1 Million in Data-Theft Extortion Case

By [email protected] (The Hacker News)

AI Summary

A U.S. government entity paid approximately $1 million in extortion to a group calling itself Kairos to prevent stolen files from being leaked, according to a Ransom-ISAC case study by Rakesh Krishnan built on leaked negotiation chats and blockchain transaction trails. Notably, Kairos shows no evidence of ever deploying ransomware encryption — operating purely as a data-theft extortion actor — complicating traditional ransomware-focused defenses and incident response playbooks.

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